In the sociology of scientific knowledge, Planck's principle holds that scientific change does not occur because individual scientists change their minds in light of new evidence, but rather because successive generations of scientists hold different views from the start. It is named after the physicist Max Planck, who stated a version of the idea in his own autobiography.
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Core ClaimScientific change does not occur because individual scientists change their mind, but because successive generations of scientists have different views. 1 Classification
Type of PhenomenonSocial or Interpersonal Phenomenon 1 Connections
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Source Planck's principle (Wikipedia)
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Scientific change does not occur because individual scientists change their mind, but rather that successive generations of scientists have different views.
In Branch: Psychology of Science, Lead sentence
In sociology of scientific knowledge, Planck's principle is the view that scientific change does not occur because individual scientists change their mind, but rather that successive generations of scientists have different views.
In Group: Belief Perseverance Effects, Lead sentence
In sociology of scientific knowledge, Planck's principle is the view that scientific change does not occur because individual scientists change their mind, but rather that successive generations of scientists have different views.
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