Paradigm blindness

Limited viewpoint caused by devotion to a particular mode or pattern of thought. The Kuhnian concepts of paradigm and paradigm shifts are related to scientific problem solving, and problem solving in general These phenomena can limit thinking and prevent seeing essential factors outside of the current paradigm. There is often great pressure to believe current paradigms and thus reject paradigms that are newly proposed. There are anomalies for all paradigms, Kuhn maintained, that are brushed away as unacceptable or in error, or are simply ignored and not dealt with. Thus, a disciple functioning well enough with old paradigms tends to be “blind” to new fundamental hypotheses.