ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a framework for classifying researches within a particular scientific field and across all such fields. It facilitates constructing and integrating parts within a given research. The logical structures of a large variety of possible problems, researches, and specializations in a given scientific field may be systematically differentiated. One could analyze changes in the profile of a given field, similarities and differences between the profiles of several fields, or of several individual scientists or several "schools" within a single field, etc. Although Kuhn discusses the revolutionary impact of crises in scientific paradigms as a whole, and although his most explicit definition of a "paradigm" specifies "law, theory, application, and instrumentation" as its components, he does not discuss this specification further; nor does he examine the causes, developmental sequences, and consequences of different kinds of crises that may originate in different components.