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Fine, it's false. If scientists acted like the Church, we'd have made about as much progress in science as religion.

The reason science is able to find truer explanations is that scientists in fact look for them, rather than musing on how to enforce strictly conservative attitudes. If you deny this, you've unexplained something. Kuhn, and you, have not offered a replacement.




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