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Thomas Kuhn, an Uncommon card
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Thomas Kuhn quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Thomas Kuhn card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The book ______ the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.
Answer
popularized. The book popularized the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom. From the Thomas Kuhn article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose ____ book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles.
Answer
1960s. Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles. From the Thomas Kuhn article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The book popularized the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.
- Kuhn made several claims concerning the progress of scientific knowledge: that scientific fields undergo periodic "paradigm shifts" rather than solely progressing in a linear and continuous way, and that these paradigm shifts open up new approaches to understanding what scientists would never have considered valid before, and that the notion of scientific truth, at any given moment, cannot be…
- Competing paradigms are frequently incommensurable, that is, there is no one-to-one correspondence of assumptions and terms.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thomas Kuhn article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 59: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Thomas Kuhn (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bob Bielk, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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