Science as Paradigm
Science as Paradigm
The term Paradigm was popularized by Thomas Kuhn in his groundbreaking book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” in regards to the Sciences, in that Science as an institution, born out of and comprised of social agents in a social world is not, and cannot be outside of, or above, the very natural by-product of culture and human knowledge – the World-View, the Gestalt, or rather; the Paradigm.
A paradigm is a collectively agreed upon system of rules, thoughts, images, theories about the world, language use, and so on. It is, in a sense, a sub-domain of the over-arching cultural paradigm which in a general sense is comprised of many world-views.
For our purposes on this website, the modern Western paradigm is the one in which we shall discuss, attack, dissect and question; and this paradigm can now generally be viewed as a scientific materialist one – of uniformity – a world in which only the directly observable phenomenon are seen as Truth and Fact, in which cultural history is merely a long trail of fantastic and primitive fantasy, and a gestalt which has led human knowledge and creative and spiritual progress to a slow and steady halt. The great fallacy that scientific paradigm has induced into its practitioners, suggests that Science itself is at the same time, Truth bearing and Fact giving, yet falsifiable. The religious practitioners of Science would have you believe their world-view is completely different then a staunch Religious perspective – and yet both are part of well funded institutions. Both hold an ultimate truth, or claim channels of thought to know the Truth. Both have practitioners within the institution who are the ‘learned’, who know the language, and act as mediaries between Science and the general population. Both, when question by practioners, will cast you out like a heretic.
This was not always the case, with modern Science. In the very early days of the Greek
