What does the word paradigm mean and why does it help explain the Scientific Revolution?

A paradigm is a universally recognizable scientific achievement that, for a time, provides model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners.

Paradigms are important because they define how we perceive reality and how we behave within it.

For Kuhn, the history of science is characterized by revolutions in scientific outlook. Scientists have a worldview or "paradigm". A paradigm is a universally recognizable scientific achievement that, for a time, provides model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners.

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