Re: On Kuhn's fashionability

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From: Paul Kube
Date: Thu, 21 May 1987 19:17

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In article <8705200312.AA02647@brahms.Berkeley.EDU> obnoxio@brahms.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>I've never been able to figure out why Kuhn is so "fashionable".  

Kuhn is fashionable because he refuted the Popperian theory that
theories are discarded because they are refuted, replacing it with 
the theory that theories are discarded because they are unfashionable.


--Paul kube@berkeley.edu, ...!ucbvax!kube

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