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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/the-ashtray-shifting-paradigms-part-2/

March 7, 2011, 8:30 pm

The Ashtray: Shifting Paradigms (Part 2)

Excerpt:
The most important and most controversial aspect of Kuhn’s theory involved his use of the terms “paradigm shift” and “incommensurability.” That the scientific terms of one paradigm are incommensurable with the scientific terms of the paradigm that replaces it. A revolution occurs. One paradigm is replaced with another. And the new paradigm is incommensurable with the old one. He made various attempts to define it — changing and modifying his definitions along the way. In the 1962 edition of “Structure” incommensurability was likened to a Gestalt-flip. Presumably, it was about how we see the world.
I found this unconvincing. In a Gestalt-flip, we never lose our ability to see the rabbit or the duck, even if we can’t see them at the same time. We see the rabbit, then the duck. Or the duck, then the rabbit. Rabbit, duck. Duck, rabbit. (I’m sure Elmer Fudd figures in here, somewhere.) But then Kuhn went on to say, “What were ducks in the scientist’s world before the revolution are rabbits afterwards.” [20]
What!? Is this about our perception of reality or about reality itself? Did the ducks become rabbits?
Here is where the dangerous, slippery slope begins.
Kuhn writes, “We may want to say that after a revolution scientists are responding to a different world.”[emphasis mine]

Attribution: Jastrow, J. (1899). The Mind’s Eye. Popular Science Monthly, 54, 299-312, via Wikimedia Commons

By 1969, in his postscript to “Structure,” incommensurability had become linguistic. Kuhn wrote, “Two men who perceive the same situation differently but nevertheless employ the same vocabulary in its discussion must be using words differently. They speak, that is, from what I have called incommensurable viewpoints.” [21] People in different paradigms speak different languages, and there is no way to translate the scientific language of one paradigm into the scientific language of another. [22] Even when they use the same words.