Without theories, scientists' experiments would have no meaning for the world. Theories are at the heart of the scientific community; therefore, it is imperative to determine how to determine which theory prevails among the others. Kuhn was one of many daring scientists to attempt to explain why one theory is accepted over another, as well as the process by which this happens, known as the scientific revolution. Kuhn chose to call a theory a "paradigm", which encompasses a wide range of definitions such as "a way of doing science in a specific field", "claims about the world", "methods of creating/analyzing data,” “habits of scientific thought and action,” and “a way of seeing and interacting with the world” (Smith, p. 76). However, in this case we will narrow the paradigm to have a definition similar to that of a "theory", which is a system of ideas used to explain something; it can also be considered a model to follow for the scientific community. Kuhn's explanation of a scientific revolution highlights a major problem: the problem of incommensurability. Before explaining what the problem of incommensurability is, we need to see how the scientific revolution works according to Kuhn. Initially, there is a paradigm followed by scientists who use it to solve puzzles within the scientific community. However, once scientists can no longer solve multiple puzzles (anomalies) using this paradigm, the scientific community enters what is called a crisis. The crisis phase is where the scientific community is in uncertainty because there is no new paradigm to replace the old one. After several paradigms have been created to try to find the best one to solve the puzzles that the old one could not solve,...... middle of paper...... a theory should be able to explain a wide variety of things. , not just what it was supposed to explain.4. Simplicity: a theory must be simple in its explanation and must bring order to phenomena that would not exist or would not be taken into consideration without the theory; in other words, it should be the basis of the phenomena.5. “Fruct,” a theory must stimulate new research results, that is, it must reveal new phenomena or discover relationships between phenomena. Although Kuhn's 5 characteristics help guide the process of determining which paradigm should take over from the old one, they also hold many potentials. problems. A major problem is that scientists can still reach different conclusions using the same criterion due to different interpretations of the criterion. They may also consider certain criteria more important than others..