Kuhn, Thomas revolutionary science

Not all scientific statements are testable hypotheses, laws or theories. For example, scientific paradigms, by one definition (Masterman, 1970 Horgan, 1996), are organizing principles which encompass much of the work of ordinary science, in the language of Thomas Kuhn (1970) but are not necessarily testable. Ordinary science is not the source of revolutionary science (except, possibly when it breaks down) and is not hypothesis driven so much as driven by the requirement to fill in the holes opened in a field by the scientific paradigm. 

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