The Grammatical Structure of Scientific Revolutions

ABSTRACT

In this article, I examine the structural parallels between Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science and Ludwig Wittgenstein's later thought, focusing on the idea of grammatical frameworks. My central claim is that Kuhn's concept of paradigm and its later, more language‐centred forms in his philosophy can be read as a Wittgensteinian grammatical space. By approaching scientific revolutions as shifts within such spaces, I suggest that Kuhn's controversial idea of incommensurability is better understood not as a collapse of rational discourse but as a form of deep disagreement grounded in what Wittgenstein calls hinge commitments. This reading opens the way to a non‐relativist account of scientific change that still acknowledges the historical and plural nature of scientific worldviews.