Explain what the italicized text here means

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[Toulmin] likens Kuhn's position to that of the Catastrophists in their debate with the Uniformitarians in nineteenth-century palaeontology. The former, observes Toulmin, had gradually to multiply catastrophes until they became law-like and uniform events. So with Kuhn. From revolutions being dramatic events happening every two or three hundred years there has been a shift in his position towards making them regular, frequent and small occasions, thus robbing the notion of its impact and explanatory power.

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