The term "paradigm shift" was coined by the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
In this book, he posited that the wisdom of the day—which assumed scientific progress was maintained primarily through the accumulation of supported theories and demonstrable fact—was incorrect, and instead we go throug…
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