"... only with great difficulty could [Kuhn] have left the concept of 'paradigm' more open to misinterpretation than he did. One sympathetic critic has shown that Kuhn uses the tem in no fewer than 21 different ways." - Cedarbaum, "Paradigms"
Every time I hear the word 'paradigm,' I remember my old PI, incensed that the lab's work wasn't getting into the best journals, when everyone should be able to see that it was paradigm shifting, or that it would start a new paradigm, paradigm, paradigm. I suspected paradigm was his favorite word.
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