Axioms and Assumptions Are Made Up. How We Invented Paradigms To Change The World.

Paradigms are sets of rules accepted by groups of people working in a particular field.Scientists agree to them while solving problems deemed important and worthy of a solution. Paradigms, comprised of axioms, i.e. things we hold as true, arise among scientific communities focused on a particular area or a problem. If you think about doing science or research as puzzle solving, the are the rules along which you agree to play, like you can only join puzzles together if they match with each other and can be pieced together effortlessly. They also talk about things one cannot do within a particular paradigm, like force the puzzles into a particular position. A paradigm does not have to be accepted by all scientists working in a particular domain. Instead, it is common to see numerous subgroups of specialists within a field agreeing upon different axioms and working under numerous paradigms. When a group of scientists including Claude Shannon (the founder of Information Science) and…