ABSTRACT
Prior to Thomas Kuhn there had been a broad consensus concerning the aims of science. It was supposed to strive to obtain a clear, objective, unbiased and unprejudiced identification of some particular realm of reality. Kuhn significantly changed people's conception of what scientists do. Educated people now accept that science is perspective, that paradigms govern even the most technical aspects of scientific thought and research. In the context Kuhn is offering an objective conditional statement, one he believes could be true: if his theory is sound, then his statement is true. The idea that truth is impossible is absurd – it amounts to holding that all of science consists of claims that are neither true nor false. Kuhn disallows the possibility of knowing whether one's conclusions are true, whether one's beliefs are correct – in science or in any other field of concern to human beings.
