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To: JohnM who wrote (76095)	2/20/2003 5:56:22 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Did you find anything different? Yes and no, it depends on who is doing the knowing in your post. It is likely that the researchers working in the new area are aware of the emerging paradigm because they know the failures of the existing paradigm. Kuhn lays out a 9 stage framework to map a paradigm shift. The fifth stage, roughly speaking, is when somebody writes "the book" on the new paradigm, it is that person who names the paradigm. At that point, conventional wisdom loosens a bit and scientists start to apply the ideas of the new paradigm to their own fields. I think the maxim that paradigms shift one funeral at a time is also important. The older generations may never 'know' the new paradigm, in the way that Einstein never quite accepted quantum mechanics. The wonderful thing about Kuhn's model is it's deep pragmatism and I think it is this pragmatism that gets lost when people take 'paradigm shift' out of his model and apply it generally. Paul