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I Think We're Still Planning Kuhniana
todd [decorative spacer] May 09, 2006 [decorative spacer] 9:06 AM

In the meantime, John Hawks has a post on "surprise" as a factor in journal publication.

The study of nature does indeed seem to surprise us. The odds of finding in abstracts of scientific research papers a result or conclusion described as 'surprising', 'unexpected', or 'unusual' are an order of magnitude greater than in standard language and several times greater than in non-science academic abstracts. The word 'surprising' appears 12 times more frequently in the natural sciences than in standard English and 1.3 times more frequently than in social sciences, arts and humanities. The word 'unexpected' appears 39 times and 2.2 times more frequently in the natural sciences than, respectively, in standard English and in non-science academic writing.

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Oh, hell's yes, we're still planning Kuhniana. My reading of Kuhn was tabled recently for more pressing academic assignments, but that should mostly resolve itself by Saturday, at which point I will probably reimmerse myself in Structure to revise a paper on incommensurability. Which, in all likelihood, will result in a post on the same topic.

But now is as good a time as any to get commitments out of people to actually write something. Say, a week from tomorrow?

Posted by tony at May 12, 2006 4:57 PM

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