‘Prehistoric Antiquity’
Thomas Kuhn writes, “Ever since prehistoric antiquity one field of study after another has crossed the divided between what the historian might call its prehistory as science and its history Proper.” The ‘prehistoric antiquity’ signifies the epoch whose scientific innovations were not chronicled. The ‘history proper’ represents the epoch whose records the scientific discoveries were archived.
Paradigm
Paradigms bid prototypes that oversee scientific enquiries. Thomas Kuhn elucidates, “the most striking of these is what I have previously called the transition from the pre-to the post-paradigm period in the development of a scientific field.” A paradigm proposes patterns that govern the unabridged scientific enquiry; hence, they expedite uniformity instead of a haphazard methodology.
Puzzle
Thomas Kuhn observes, “The latter (post-paradigm period) is generally esoteric and oriented to puzzle-solving.” Puzzles are emblematic of the cryptic phenomena which the scientists endeavor to untangle using scientific ideologies.
