The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
Outline and Study Guide
prepared by Professor Frank Pajares
Emory University
Chapter I - Introduction: A Role for History.
Kuhn begins by formulating some assumptions that lay the foundation for
subsequent discussion and by briefly outlining the key contentions of the
book.
A scientific community cannot practice its trade without some set of
received beliefs (p. 4).
These beliefs form the foundation of the "educational initiation that
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