This is a matter of faith: it cannot be proved according to any scientific paradigm.
Whether it fits into your scientific paradigm or not.
His early experience in science led him to the view that educational researchers are wrong in aping the scientific paradigm.
The two elements tend to lie in different scientific paradigms.
He has no idea about how a new scientific paradigm subsumes the previous one.
The project specifications were for a modern reference work based on a scientific paradigm incorporating gender and environmental issues.
It offers a "grand tour of all the major scientific paradigms".
Thus, optimality theory as a framework is best described as a scientific paradigm.
Anybody who disagrees with the dominant scientific paradigm, he said, is "read out of the profession."
It is recognized that unification has not been accomplished yet which may hint at fundamental problems with the current scientific paradigms.