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 | | Its publication was a landmark event in the sociology of knowledge, and popularized the terms paradigm and "paradigm shift". |
 | | After some time, a new paradigm is devised, and thus begins the period where the adherents of the old paradigm and the new paradigm make appeals for their belief systems. |
 | | The terms paradigm and "paradigm shift" have become such notorious buzzwords that they are in many circles considered hollow and empty, and rarely have any strong connection to Kuhn's original text. |
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