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cumulative model of the dominant positivist conception. What Kuhn’s description clearly highlights is the importance of the individual who, in the free exercise of their will, can see beyond the dominant paradigm. It is only by questioning received wisdom and the assumptions of tradition that significant breakthroughs have been made which have allowed the expansion of scientific knowledge. While this model borrows from the world of art the idea of changes to our ways of seeing, it also relies on the artist’s critical instinct as a means to challenge accept norms. This notion of the artist as a critic who steps outside the dominant paradigm had also persisted in architecture, as suggested in Chapter 1. To understand the influence of this view of the architect as intuitive artist, it is worth taking a moment to consider the status of art in philosophy – more specifically in aesthetics – both before and after Hegel.
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