Kuhn is dead; long live paradigm shifts! Peter's frustration and the
announcement of Kuhn's death rub shoulders in my inbox, serendipitously.
On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Peter Sands cussed a bit then wrote:
> I vote for a Tuesday Cafe on this (but not the week of the 4th of July
> ...)
Right on. I would like to suggest we do so in light of Kuhn's passing.
Don't many of you feel as if you are indeed in another paradigm? I will
throw another metaphor into the stew as well...
I have been struggling to learn C programming language. As the prof draws
little boxes on the white board, explaining how local and global variables
work, I ponder paradigms...one subprogram cannot know about another
subprogram, unless the blocks are nested rather than parallel. Consider
RhetNet and Kairos as the nested blocks which will eventually return a value.
Kuhn's theory of punctuated equilibrium pissed off a few
people in the scientific community as well. Always happens with those
stuck in their own little parallel subprogram...they cannot see outside.
The question is, whose program will compile?
Janet
humming the litle boxes song...anyone remember Pete Seeger?
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