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by easytiger 1579 days ago
With the caveat that it has been well argued that "scientific revolutions" are an artefact of historical compression rather than real phenomenon that was experienced by participants in said "revolution"
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I'm pretty sure his conclusion was that new paradigms take hold by the previous generation dying/retiring. So I'm not sure how much compression that really is.