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To: paul_philp who wrote (76102)	2/20/2003 7:32:07 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Interesting. I'm sure we are fascinating everyone else. ;-) I agree with the first point, that it depends on who is doing the knowing. But the problem with the knowing is that, in Kuhn's handling, the new paradigm overturns old ways of knowing. Researchers working in new ways are not likely to know it is such because they labor under old epistemologies. That's one of the reasons I think it cannot be "known" until well after the old one is dead. Terribly abstract, aren't we. A story. The school from which I retired gave Kuhn an honorary degree in the late 70s or early 80s, I forget just which. I attended many of the functions because I had lobbied, successfully, for an honorary degree for Rosabeth Kanter, now at Harvard, then at Yale, for her work in sociology. As such, I was her escort. Kuhn turned out to be a terrific guest; friendly; not taken with himself as are so many of these types; actually, a good listener. But, and this was the interesting but not surprising part, he asked us not to discuss the paradigm stuff with him. Said he had talked enough about that and was interested in talking about other things now.