One view about science, associated with philosopher Thomas Kuhn, which offers that the history of science is derived to a period of normal science that is for when scientists work based on some acknowledged theories for adding more and updating them. Another period can be called revolutionary science that is for when some new view point can change completely an older recognized hypothesis and turn it to a fresh theory which is called paradigm shift(“The philosophy of science,” n.d.).
In my opinion, I think that we can put Knight’s work in the period of normal science category because Knight did not change the paradigm. In fact, he inspired from older theories for saying his theory, but we should consider that what he represented in 1921 was
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For instance, (Volz & Gigerenzer, 2012) provided some evidence that cognitive processes for decisions in a world of risk are not the same as in a world of uncertainty. They asserted that “The neural correlations of the cognitive processes such as heuristic …show more content…
We can take some help, but always they cannot help us. In fact, nowadays we are living in a seriously dynamic world and for meeting our demands and solving current problems we need to think individually and try to shift some old paradigms because a paradigm or a hypothesis cannot be useful for forever and we should evaluate them periodically because now the rate of changing variables and condition all over the world is truly high. Plus, about complicated subjects like economic and phycology which are very important, we cannot rely on just some old credible ideas, so that is why doing research and study for generating science cannot be proper in this way that always uses older texts and