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World change, reaction a: dismissalIsrael Scheffler in Science and Subjectivity, 1967, p. 19: “I cannot, myself, believe that this bleak picture, representing an extravagant idealism, is true.”The full argument contains four premises and one conclusion (this is for the philosophers):P1: Incommensurability encompasses world change P2: World change (in revolutions) implies idealism. P3: Idealism is bullshit. P4: Bullshit can be dismissed. Conclusion: Incommensurability can be dismissed.Ad P2: Yes, perhaps, but what sort of idealism?Ad P3: The high-school version of idealism is certainly very questionable: “What reality is depends on how you think of it” – periodWas this Kuhn’s view?
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Paul Hoyningen-Huene, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCp8MMT-pjU What is uncontroversial about Kuhn?]" (2012)

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