What Thomas Kuhn thinks about optimism

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Philosopher and historian of science (1922 to 1996) whose The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) argued that science moves through paradigms and revolutions, and made "paradigm shift" a household phrase.

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   Our readingHis account of science is not relativism; he believes in scientific progress

   Their wordsThat is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.

   ↗The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (second edition, enlarged, University of Chicago Press, 1970)archive.org All 17 from this book