Normal science

Normal science, identified and elaborated on by Thomas Samuel Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,^[1] is the regular work of scientists theorizing, observing, and experimenting within a settled paradigm or explanatory framework.^[2] Regarding science as puzzle-solving,^[3] Kuhn explained normal science as slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory, without questioning or challenging the underlying assumptions of that theory.

^ J. Childers/G. Hentzi eds., The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (1995) p. 110
^ Childers, p. 84
^ T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) p. 35-42

[1] J. Childers/G. Hentzi eds., The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (1995) p. 110

[2] Childers, p. 84

[3] T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) p. 35-42

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