o classify is tradition in the field of science. If something has occurred in the past and a similar event has occurred in the present, the present event will be labeled as the past event was. This is a basic example of how the paradigm works in the field of science. "Paradigms could determine normal science without the intervention of discoverable rules." (Kuhn, pp.46)New theories and ideas are constantly being introduced in the science world. When dealing with these it is important to distinguish novelties of fact from novelties of theory. For example, when something is invented or discovered, there may be people who will come up with a theory based on the others discovery. They may actually say they came up with the discovery before the other person did. There are millions of theories and in finding the true facts one must be careful. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish the facts from fiction. As science develops, paradigms may change. Once something has been discovered, other scientists will work on the newly found discovery and progressively make it more advanced over time. There are things that have been discovered in the past that have changed paradigms dramatically. On the other hand, things such as gravity have stood the test of time and remains more stable.When a paradigm is changed, it is always at the same time with a decision to accept another one. "To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself." (Kuhn, pp.79). To reject something for no reason without having a replacement makes no sense at all."Once a first paradigm through which to view nature has been found, there is no such thing as research in the absence of any paradigm." (Kuhn, pp.79). If that point is reversed it says, there is no such thing as research without counter instances. They both illustrate the fact that once a paradigm is set, any research of changing in that area will have some effect on the p...
