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MSN's Encarta defines a '''paradigm shift''' as "a radical change in somebody's basic assumptions about or approach to something."[http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_701708536/paradigm_shift.html].  The term paradigm shift was used by [[Thomas Kuhn]] in his 1962 book ''[[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]]''.  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy wrote the following regarding Kuhn's concept of the paradigm shift:

MSN's Encarta defines a '''paradigm shift''' as "a radical change in somebody's basic assumptions about or approach to something."[http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_701708536/paradigm_shift.html].  The term paradigm shift was introduced by [[Thomas Kuhn]] in his 1962 book ''[[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]]''.  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy wrote the following regarding Kuhn's concept of the paradigm shift:

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