Frank Kogan

P16:
i: "clearly in mind"
ii: "admired codifier of logic" --
iii: "emergence of the modern biological tradition"
iv: "talents have deserted him so systematically"
v: "Aristotle stumbled... totally collapsed"
vi: "Suddenly the fragments in my head sorted themselves in a new way, and fell into place together."
vii: "... egregious mistakes now seemed... near misses within a ... successful tradition."

I find p. 16 totally inspiring, though I don't have a lot to say about it in regard to the purposes of this particular thread - our exploration of similarity and all that - except for saying OK, how do we use Kuhn as our model here? How can we be good readers of others in the way that Kuhn is a good reader of Aristotle? How did Kuhn do it? The phrase "fell into place together" is a place to start. Aside from what it tells us about paradigm shifts/scientific revolutions, it also tells us why Kuhn believed his new reading of Aristotle was right: the new reading held together.

Note that he says the fragments that he was re-sorting were in his head. His metaphors are visual, but the space we're dealing with is a "space" populated by concepts or connections or something. E.g., say you're looking at the stars in the sky, and you've been taught to see the standard constellations. Then you start drawing your own constellations, taking the same specks of light but relating them differently to each other: what had once indicated skin is now an eyeball, stars that had formerly belonged to the same figure now belong to separate ones, etc.