Kuhn: Rules and fouls
"But it's under .05!" 2015-07-01
Summary:
Often, viewing all [scientific] fields together, it seems instead a rather ramshackle structure with little coherence among its various parts… [S]ubstituting paradigms for rules should make the diversity of scientific fields and specialties easier to understand. Explicit rules, when they exist, are usually common to a very broad scientific group, but paradigms need not be. […]