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Scientific revolutions have been described as episodes in the history of science in which old empirical research activities, standards of achievement, problem fields and even ontologies have been exchanged for new (Kuhn, 1962; Feyerabend, 1962).
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Kleiner, S.A. (1971). Ontological and Terminological Commitment and the Methodological Commensurability of Theories. In: Buck, R.C., Cohen, R.S. (eds) PSA 1970. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3142-4_33
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