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To: papertyger
papertyger: " 'Dysfunctional', how? "

Read it yourself, again.
"Anomaly: Blame apparatus, set aside problem, modify paradigm." Sounds pretty dysfunctional to me, and therefore not what Toulmin had in mind.

papertyger. " Bear in mind I’m only asking because I’m provisionally giving you credit in hoping you’ll have a real answer rather than 'begging the question' by simply positing Toulmin is right and Kuhn is wrong. "

Yet again you project views on me I never expressed, or quacked, as the case may be.
In fact, I don't doubt that both are right in different circumstances.
Kuhn describes a more chaotic, dysfunctional & unconscious "revolutionary" process, while Toulmin defends the honor of science by positing a more orderly & consciously directed "evolutionary" process.

I think both processes are, or were, true at different times & places.

You disagree?

182 posted on 12/09/2017 9:26:31 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK
Sounds pretty dysfunctional to me, and therefore not what Toulmin had in mind.

Quack, Quack.

183 posted on 12/09/2017 4:41:41 PM PST by papertyger (Bulverism: it's not just for liberals anymore.)
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