Use when 'we're making progress' is used to mean 'we're getting closer to being right' — ask: progress by whose yardstick, toward what? Use to evaluate a company, a career, or a belief system: it can be getting better at its own game while drifting from the thing it was originally about.

Kuhn's most consequential and most misread claim: the progress of science is real, but it is progress in the paradigm's own terms — better puzzle-solving — not convergence on a final truth. This separates 'the field is improving' (true, by its own standards) from 'the field is approaching reality' (not something the framework can guarantee).