{"id":2216,"date":"2010-09-11T12:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T19:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2010-09-11T12:42:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T19:42:01","slug":"what-makes-a-really-exciting-idea-incompleteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/09\/11\/what-makes-a-really-exciting-idea-incompleteness\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a really exciting idea? Incompleteness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Thomas Kuhn, normal science is research based upon past  scientific achievements of a certain type, those that constitute what he  calls &#8220;paradigms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is to say, achievements that are &#8220;sufficiently unprecedented to attract and enduring group of adherents away from  competing models of scientific activity.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously&#8230;sufficiently  open ended to leave all sorts of problems for the redefined group of  practitioners to resolve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paraphrased here by Jean-Pierre Dupuy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Thomas Kuhn, normal science is research based upon past scientific achievements of a certain type, those that constitute what he calls &#8220;paradigms.&#8221; That is to say, achievements that are &#8220;sufficiently unprecedented to attract and enduring group of adherents away from competing models of scientific activity. Simultaneously&#8230;sufficiently open ended to leave all sorts of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/09\/11\/what-makes-a-really-exciting-idea-incompleteness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What makes a really exciting idea? Incompleteness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}