According to Kuhn, scientific revolutions are
A) achievements accepted by the scientific community which are the foundation for its practices.
B) the guidelines and theories, methods, and standards of a certain scientific field.
C) political upheavals which replace one set of governing institutions with another.
D) non-cumulative developmental episodes in which one paradigm is replaced by an incommensurable new one.
D
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a. Conservative b. Hasidism c. Reconstructionism d. Reform e. Zionism
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A Fravashi is:
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