Heidegger, in contrast, says that the space between paradigms is when Being is most openly examined. Kuhn and Feyerabend (although Feyerabend more explicitly) depend on a mechanized conception of rationality, but an appeal to a more robust version of rationality could resolve this. Mechanized rationality tends to depend on some sort of foundational epistemology (empirical or rational) in which first principles are known first (think Descartes). A contrasting viewpoint tells us that first principles are not known first, but last.

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