ABSTRACT
Thomas Kuhn argues in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions that scientific fields go through specific stages of development. They start out as something less than science-philosophy-with groups of thinkers pursuing very different ways of developing thoughts about the reasons for the observed phenomena. Superiority theory is the view that humor is the assertion of one's direct dominance or supremacy over another person. The received view in the philosophy of humor is incongruity theory, according to which humor is the perception or appreciation of an incongruity. The script is a cognitive structure internalized by the native speaker and it represents the native speaker's knowledge of a small part of the world. Humor can be used to inspire mirth or to kill it. The accounts of humor each successfully illuminate aspects of the nature of humor, however, none of them presents a completely successful description of the complete nature of humor.
