Must Kuhn Allow Cross-Paradigm Evidence?
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2023-12-01
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Editura Academiei Romane/Publishing House of the Romanian Academy
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Does Kuhn’s thesis that successive paradigms are incommensurable necessarily entail denying that the same evidence can be employed under successive paradigms? In this paper, I will argue no. In supporting that conclusion, I will argue for an even stronger point: Kuhn must be committed to the claim that the same evidence can be employed across paradigms, or his account of anomalies makes no sense.