New Answers for Kuhniacs (New Answers #5): Intergalactic Largesse

dubdobdee compiled a daunting inventory of models, similarity, metaphors, etc. in the Thomas Kuhn article "What Are Scientific Revolutions?" (see here for the article, pp 13 to 32), and I've gone through and commented on quite a lot of it down in the comment thread to Kuhn 6 RESTARTED: Dick And Jane Examine Paradigms. I encourage you to look at what we've written, and add your own comments (there or here).

What I'm going to do midweek (I'm shooting for Tuesday or Wednesday) is to start posting what Kuhn has said paradigms are ("paradigm" in the sense of an "exemplar" or a "model"). One reason I urge you to think and comment before then is that what he's doing seems to cover more territory than he says it does, so I want you to have your own opinions about what he's doing before telling you his and mine.

( Questions to hold in the back of your mind while reading )

Other koganbot threads with new comments in the last five days or so:

Another Year In America February 12, 2009 ("expanding the archetypal blissed out R&B slow jam into a feast of intergalactic largesse")
Another Year In America February 5, 2009 ("death metal in his strangulations")
Die Tarper, or Tire Rims And Anthrax ("the war of public relations can be won by the insane folk")