ABSTRACT
Kuhn helped to change the prevailing idea of science as a simply cumulative learning process in a straight line. He introduced some turns, intellectual reversals at each new revolution. He also introduced some non-rational factors into the scientific process (conversion, commitment, resistance, incommensurability). Despite these successes of some of his main ideas, including the ideas more commonly called "irrational," there are some inconsistencies in some of his views and methods. In general, compared with the views of Bloom and Derrida, his view of tradition is least developed, and least deconstructive.
