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Alternative paradigmatic hypotheses cannot be fairly evaluated from within one's own paradigmatic assumptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2004

Steven Lehar*
Affiliation:
Peli Lab, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, MA 02114-2500 http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar
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To avoid endless and futile debate, critics of an alternative paradigmatic hypothesis cannot simply state their own paradigmatic assumptions as if they were plain fact while dismissing those of the opposition as self-evidently absurd, because it is exactly those initial assumptions that are brought into question by the paradigmatic proposal. Perceived incredibility is no valid ground for rejection of a paradigm whose alternatives are at least equally incredible, and arguably more so.

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