Re: Dealing with a Shifting Paradigm -TS Kuhn

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I agree with you completely on this , and I dont think anyone

disagrees on it. its like leaveing your home for a while and comeing

back and catching that first smell of something that you did not

smell while you were there earlier that day. yes, getting out of of

environment for a while helps detect smells when you come back and

this diffenity helps mold victims to see the effects that the mold in

theri home is really doing to them, this is the same thing I was

talking about when I said that I had proved to myself that toxic

molds in my 2 homes were the cause of my illness, I did leave and I

did return. this was re-exposure, but at the time I didn't know

enough about it to know better. but latter realized this and erased

all dought from my mind of what was makeing me ill. now haveing said

this, please consider those of us who have cronic sinusitis, and the

fact that mold can hinder your sence of

smell .

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> 1: Physician Exec. 1987 May-Jun;13(3):10-4. Related Articles,

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> Dealing with a shifting paradigm.

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> Kaufman RP.

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> In 1970, T. S. Kuhn, in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

> argued that scientists work by creating a comprehensive model--a

> model he called " a paradigm. " A paradigm, Kuhn said, is an

> encompassing world view that tells us what facts to pay attention

to

> and what to ignore. He contended that, although we may think that

we

> consider all the facts and ask all the questions, there is always

> some ordering and selection going on, and we must first be prepared

> by our paradigm to make sense of what we see. He stated that one of

> the first signs that a paradigm is shifting is the discovery of

> facts that seem significant and indisputably true but cannot be

> explained by the current model. The essential elements, according

to

> Kuhn, that are required for a paradigm to shift are a strong

> stimulus, a rapidly changing environment, and the realization that

> whether the change is good or bad is essentially of no

significance.

> The parties most closely involved are frequently the last to

> appreciate that the shift has occurred.

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> PMID: 10312134 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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