paradigm
Original: paradigm on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with flame-like spiky hair (excitedly, arms raised): Hey Thomas Kuhn -- your paradigm theory is wrong! Science doesn't grow by revolutions! The whole process is messy.
Panel 2:
A man in a suit (the listener, gesturing): Sometimes you get a theory that's so exploratory, everyone questions over established ones, but a single one that's the truth, but its rejected because the evidence isn't good yet. Sometimes revolutionary theories are accepted, sometimes they are rejected because they are fundamentally stupid!
Panel 3:
The suited man (hands raised, palms up): There's no neat cycle between a given paradigm and a revolutionary one that establishes a new paradigm.
Panel 4:
The spiky-haired man (smug, arms crossed): So you're saying... you have a revolutionary theory that overturns my paradigm.
Panel 5:
The suited man (head thrown back, mouth wide open, screaming): AAAAHHHHHHHHNNNNNN!
Votey:
A small, shaky, hand-drawn parenthetical text in the middle of an otherwise blank panel: (sorry)
A man with flame-like spiky hair (excitedly, arms raised): Hey Thomas Kuhn -- your paradigm theory is wrong! Science doesn't grow by revolutions! The whole process is messy.
Panel 2:
A man in a suit (the listener, gesturing): Sometimes you get a theory that's so exploratory, everyone questions over established ones, but a single one that's the truth, but its rejected because the evidence isn't good yet. Sometimes revolutionary theories are accepted, sometimes they are rejected because they are fundamentally stupid!
Panel 3:
The suited man (hands raised, palms up): There's no neat cycle between a given paradigm and a revolutionary one that establishes a new paradigm.
Panel 4:
The spiky-haired man (smug, arms crossed): So you're saying... you have a revolutionary theory that overturns my paradigm.
Panel 5:
The suited man (head thrown back, mouth wide open, screaming): AAAAHHHHHHHHNNNNNN!
Votey:
A small, shaky, hand-drawn parenthetical text in the middle of an otherwise blank panel: (sorry)
Alt text
A five-panel comic about Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific paradigms. A man with flame-like spiky hair excitedly tells Thomas Kuhn that his paradigm theory is wrong -- science doesn't grow by revolutions, the whole process is messy. The other man, in a suit, argues at length that the process is irregular: some theories are rejected for lacking evidence, some revolutionary theories are accepted and others rejected for being fundamentally stupid, and there is no neat cycle between an existing paradigm and a revolutionary one. The spiky-haired man then smugly crosses his arms and says: so you're saying you have a revolutionary theory that overturns my paradigm. In the final panel the suited man throws his head back and screams in frustration, realizing his own anti-paradigm argument has been folded back into the paradigm framework. The votey aftercomic is an otherwise blank panel with a tiny, shaky hand-drawn note in the middle reading '(sorry)'.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.