The first concept in Kuhn’s definition is universality, meaning that the vast majority of the participants in a paradigm must accept its boundaries, structure and tenets to be true. There are four key concepts in Kuhn’s definition which are outlined below. Thomas Kuhn defined the word paradigm to mean “universally accepted achievements that, for a time, provide model problems and solutions for a community of practitioners.” In the area of science, the physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn, author of the influential book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, defined the word paradigm to mean “universally accepted scientific achievements that, for a time, provide model problems and solutions for a community of practitioners.”
Over time, this word became understood to mean not only a set of rules regarding the internal structure of a system, such as the grammatical rules of a language, or how a particular task was to be carried out, but more broadly a framework for defining how certain elements of the world are identified, defined and addressed, typically within the context of a particular discipline. The word “paradigm” comes from the Greek word “paradeigma”, which means a pattern or a model. To start, in Part 1 of Paradigm Shifts, we will analyze Thomas Kuhn’s classic model of how paradigms change in the area of science and consider how applicable this model is in today’s world characterized by different types of interpretive noise, high degrees of interconnectivity and new types of black swan events.
#Kuhn paradigm shift series#
To encourage analysis of this question the Business Warrior’s Dojo is presenting a special series on paradigm shifts which provides a framework for analyzing, forecasting and mapping out positive ways to work within the large structural societal changes that are occurring and will define how we live going forward.
A key question that policy makers, business owners and new entrepreneurs are now facing is whether the world will revert back to “normal” or will there be a “new normal” that is fundamentally different than what we were used to before. The Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the world.
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