If paradigms are incommensurable, they cannot refute each other. Paradigms “talk past” each other (Feyerabend)
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No single theory can or should be overturned by a single predictive failure A single theory cannot be meaningfully defined ‘scientific’; only a series of theories can be said to be ‘scientific’
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