A paradigm shift
A paradigm is a mental model or a frame of reference. A paradigm is a set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitute the way of seeing reality.
Paradigm shifts do not happen by themselves. They are driven by agents of change - scientific, cultural, and philosophical. Paradigms change when they can no longer hold the new experiences, perceptions, or discoveries.
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History of the paradigm shift
Psychologist Jean Piaget saw children's development as a series of separate stages marked by periods of adjustments. Inspired partly by Piaget, Thomas Kuhn - a physicist, philosopher, and historian of science -proposed two kinds of scientific change:
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When A Paradigm Shifts
A paradigm shift occurs when one paradigm theory is replaced by another:
- Ptolemy's astronomy giving way to Copernican astronomy.
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