A Note on Scientific Paradigms

All scientific theories are built on paradigms .A paradigm is an example that you take as central for describing a phenomenon.

Newton had falling apples and orbiting planets. Obviously, Newton didn’t restrict his theory to tumbling fruit. Yet, these were the examples they used to lay the foundations for their broader theories.

• We can ignore their origins and simply focus on applying the theory.

Theories of the mind aren’t like this. Nobody believes we’ve found some unified theory that fully explains how the mind works. Yet we know a lot more than nothing.