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Re:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today by raincom on Sunday March 15, 2015 @03:43AM (#9205739)
Aren't we past Kuhn these days? For instance, Imre Lakatos take it further than Kuhn in his "Research Programs". And Larry Laudan takes it further than these two: research traditions and problem-soloving. Well, we have all -isms (positivism, empiricism, constructive empricism) pragmatism, realism), which are to explain the progress of knowledge (natural sciences, that is).
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Re:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today by saraid216 on Sunday March 15, 2015 @05:05AM (#9205895)
You have to remember that, in this era where there are more books in existence than is possible for a single person to read within a lifetime, most people haven't heard of everything.

I've certainly never heard of the two names you dropped.

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Re:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality finished today by raincom on Sunday March 15, 2015 @07:22PM (#9208687)
In a way, you are right. However, they (Kuhn, Lakatos, Laudan) are common names for those who have studied philosophy of sciences.
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