Kuhn's own account of paradigm shifts reveals that inter-paradigm rational adjudication requires shared epistemic standards, suggesting variation in norms marks failure of rationality, not its flexibility.

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Epistemic standards(the different requirements for belief that apply to different people): The criteria or rules we use to decide whether a belief counts as genuine knowledge or is justified.
Inter-paradigm(describes adjudication across different worldviews): Comparing or evaluating between two completely different frameworks or ways of thinking about something.
Kuhn(The subject of the statement): Thomas Kuhn was a historian of science who argued that scientific progress doesn't happen gradually, but rather through dramatic shifts where entire frameworks for understanding the world suddenly change.
Rational adjudication(the ability to evaluate competing paradigms fairly): The process of judging which idea or framework is better using logic and reason.
norms(Contrasted with natural laws in the context of historical explanation.): Rules that, unlike natural laws, change from time to time and may be followed or disregarded.
paradigm shift(Kuhnian philosophy of science): A communal shift to a new paradigm triggered when accumulated anomalies reach a critical mass.
rationality(Traditional conception being challenged by epistemic relativists): A cognitive virtue and hallmark of the scientific method, intimately tied to requirements of consistency, justification, warrant, and evidence for beliefs.

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