Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.


Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 (ed. University of Chicago Press, 1987) - ISBN: 9780226458007

Thomas Kuhn Quotes

Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They...

Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They...

Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They...

Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They...