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In Kuhn’s postscript to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, he uses the term “disciplinary matrix” to clarify what he initially meant by “paradigm.” Like paradigms, disciplinary matrices describe groups of scientists with a shared set of beliefs. But Kuhn specifies three crucial pillars of a disciplinary matrix: first, scientists must have a shared set of symbols and definitions. Second, scientists must have a shared set of metaphysical beliefs about the world. Third, scientists must have a shared set of values.
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Disciplinary Matrix Term Timeline in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Postscript - 1969
...than saying that scientists all share a single paradigm, he coins the new term “ disciplinary matrix ” to describe the shared set of theories, rules and beliefs that guide a given...
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One important part of any disciplinary matrix is the “symbolic generalizations” shared by a group of scientists (whether that is a set...
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