The Probing Of Kuhn's Paradigm Theory

Science was once considered as developing by the addition of new truths to the stock of old truths, or the increasing approximation of theories to the truth, and the image of it also connected with objectivity, rationality, the truth. However, with the publishment of Tomas Samuel Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this kind of idea was totally questioned. Kuhn's account of the development of science held that the development of science was not like a linear accumulation and science enjoys periods of stable growth punctuated by revisionary revolutions.Based on the research of scientific history, Kuhn raised a new model of scientific development: prescience(no paradigm)ànormal science (established paradigm)a scientific revolution (paradigm shaken)anew normal science (the establishment of a new paradigm). Kuhn describes normal science as'puzzle-solving'. While this term suggests that normal science is not dramatic, and that the puzzle itself and its methods of solution will have a high degree of familiarity. A puzzle-solver is not entering completely uncharted territory. Because its puzzles and their solutions are familiar and relatively straightforward,normal science can expect to accumulate a growing stock of puzzle-solutions. Revolutionary science, however, is not cumulative in that, according to Kuhn, scientific revolutions involve a revision to existing scientific belief or practice. The scientists finally abandoned the original paradigm and replaced a new one. Science entered a new normal period.Paradigm was derived from the infection of the infixes or suffixes of the words. Kuhn extended it to the science theory and the outlook of the science as well as the community of the science and some specifications. As it is known to all that this belief can be the background of the instrumental science improvement as well as the leading model to be learned from, in which researchers can point the direction and the researching method. He points that the previous paradigm has been casted and the new one has developed.Kuhn specified the in connectivity that is the social and psychological aspects are different, therefore, incomparable.In the latter period, Kuhn turned its theory to linguistics. In order to overcome the ambiguity of his theory and then he developed his theory to the professional theory, from sociology,psychology and history into taxology and linguistics. Kuhn found that the existence of taxology made the inconsistence between the name and the object, which aroused the confusion. It is said that Kuhn found the origin of this inconsistence and made progress even finished this section in his research.For Kuhn has developed an efficient way of natural science which is based on the paradigm like physics. In the outer world of the philosophy of science the new method has received outrageous welcome, which has made way for the new research as well as a set of theory for the science knowledge into the research of sociology. Kuhn has given a positive and impressive impact on the development of western scientific development, especially in his leading impact of his scientific thoughts and his getting rid of the logicism, to a new experimentalism. Western scientific philosophy has come into a new period and it has been silhouetted in the theory of Kuhn, no matter in the field of Lakatos,the non-governmentalism of Feyerabend,even in the historicism of Shapere.