Verum est factum

In the final paragraph of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn at last comes face to face with the central issue around which his exposition has been circling for some 170 pages. Anyone who has followed the argument this far will nevertheless feel the need to ask why the evolutionary process [of the development of science] should work. What must nature, including man, be like in order that science be possible at all? Why should scientific communities be able to reach a firm consensus unattainable in other fields? Why should consensus endure across one paradigm change after another? And why should paradigm change invariably produce an instrument more perfect in any sense than those known before

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