Question
A dispute over this concept caused a thinker who popularized it to throw an ashtray at Errol Morris after Morris questioned it, which Morris did again using his film The Thin Blue Line in his book The Ashtray. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this concept. Paul Feyerabend used six paired concepts to explain this concept in a paper partly attacking Ernest Nagel’s conceptual conservatism, “Explanation, Reduction, and Empiricism.”
ANSWER: incommensurable [or incommensurability; accept any answer indicating the incommensurability or competing scientific theories of paradigms]
[10m] The notion of the incommensurability of competing paradigms was argued in this book, which distinguishes between the normal “puzzle-solving” and “revolutionary” approaches to the title field.
ANSWER: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
[10e] Kuhn described paradigm shifts as switches described by this word, which names a theory of psychology developed by William Wundt and Edward Titchener named for this German word roughly translated as “pattern.”
ANSWER: Gestalt [or Gestalt switch; or Gestalt psychology]
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia B | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| JHU A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| John Jay A | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | NYU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Pitt | RIT | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| JHU B | UMD A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |