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The Kuhnexus Project is creating a database that will contain the most
important evidence for each kind of reported anomaly that poses a
significant challenge to orthodox explanations. Since these are the
anomalies that cumulatively have the potential to trigger a paradigm shift, we dub
them Kuhnia, in honour of Thomas Kuhn, and the database will be called
The Kuhnexus.
In our article on the project in the Paranormal Review, we asked people to help us by telling us about
striking cases in the literature that we may not have come across ourselves.
For every kind of anomalous phenomenon, we are looking for the most important cases of that kind.
There are many things that can make a case important
(see detailed discussion here).
The obvious one
is its evidentiality, which is useful for people asking how confident we
are that a specific type of anomaly occurs. Beyond that, though, there
are cases that are important for their implications, or for what they
tell us about the variability or characteristics of a phenomenon. There
is also significance in features that are common to different types of
cases. The database will contain cases that are important for various
reasons, so that readers are able to focus on those cases that are most
relevant to their specific interests.
Before we could start collecting and characterising cases, we had to
define what we mean by terms like anomaly, and case. These are
on our definitions
page.
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