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Who coined the term ‘emergence’?
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The term emergence was coined by the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn. In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn described the scientific process as consisting of paradigm shifts. In a paradigm shift, the scientific community changes the way they think about a particular problem. For example, the scientific community once believed that the sun revolved around the earth, but after the Copernican Revolution, the scientific community changed their thinking and came to believe that the earth revolved around the sun.