Incommensurability of paradigms in agricultural sciences - a case of organic and conventional farming systems

It was assumed in the paper that organic farming is an application of a new paradigm in modern agriculture. Kuhn conception with his fundamental thesis about incommensurability of paradigms and its original interpretation proposed by Jodkowski were applied in order to justify this statement. It was shown that competitive paradigms generate completely different definitions of the same area of reality. According to Jodkowski it is due to the change of ontology. Difficulties for full and objective comparing organic and conventional farming systems seem to be a consequence of incommensurability of these paradigms.

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