Posted on 11/26/2017 6:49:57 AM PST by Kaslin
Can you cite an example?
" At least my summation accurately reflects your claim, whether you admit it or not. "
Nonsense.
"When it walks, talks, and swims like a duck, you need to have a reason to deny the identity of what youve described other than 'I never said it was a duck.' "
Can you cite an example that "walks, talks & swims like a duck?"
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 Im only asking because Im provisionally giving you credit in hoping youll 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?
Quack, Quack.
So you're the duck, a bona fide member of the Ducka-cratic party devoted to projecting their own quacks onto others?
Fine.
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