Agreement in a community of scientists can also be taken as a measure of truth, a human-centered concept that Arthur Fine calls "consensus theories of truth." In looking at the shift from Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity to Albert Einstein's, Karl Popper would say that Newton's theory captured what people for centuries thought was an indisputable law of nature. Then Einstein's theory penetrated nature's secret even more deeply. But for Thomas Kuhn, both theories are just paradigms, explanations that account for the data known well enough in each era o bring about agreement among the scientists of that period.

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Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, paradigm, community of scientists, consensus theories of truth, human-centered, one truth, Popper, Karl, scientific realism, Epistemology

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