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What is Kuhn paradigm?
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Your fully integrated collection of schemas is your functional worldview.
Kuhn paradigm is a concept in personal epistemology: Your fully integrated collection of schemas is your functional worldview.
Example: A software architect who has integrated schemas about distributed systems, organizational behavior, economic incentives, and human cognition doesn't just make 'technical decisions.' They make decisions through a worldview — a coherent lens that connects how systems fail, how teams behave, why incentives misalign, and what cognitive biases distort planning. When asked 'should we adopt microservices?' they don't answer from one schema. They answer from a worldview that synthesizes all of them simultaneously.
This concept is part of Phase 20 (Schema Integration) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for schema integration.
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