Normal science

The concept of normal science appears in the test the structure of the scientific revolutions of Thomas Kuhn. Normal science is the scientific activity empirical, predictive and productive resting on a Paradigme accepted by a group of the Scientific community. When the paradigm which structure a given discipline is put in difficulty because of repeated failures, a crisis opens and seeks it of a new conceptual framework is started. The confrontation of theories candidates to the title again unifying paradigm, then the effective acceptance of a new paradigm which replaces the old traditions of scientific research by rejecting the old paradigm, constitutes a scientific Révolution.

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