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Paradigm-Shift Critique of Falsifiability

Thomas Kuhn's argument that Popper's falsifiability criterion does not match how science actually operates: working scientists inside a given paradigm routinely set aside apparently falsifying anomalies rather than immediately abandoning a theory, and revolutionary change happens through paradigm shifts rather than single decisive falsifications.

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  • Paradigm-Shift Critique of Falsifiability was authored by Thomas Kuhn — Argued in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962.

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