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The generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In science and philosophy , a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitutes legitimate contributions to a field.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Late Latin paradigma "pattern, example," especially in grammar, from Greek paradeigma "pattern, model; precedent, example," from paradeiknynai "exhibit, represent," literally "show side by side," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + deiknynai ...
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n. 1 An example serving as a model or pattern; a template. 2 (context linguistics English) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category. 3 A system of assumptions, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paradigm \Par"a*digm\, n. [F. paradigme, L. paradigma, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to show by the side of, to set up as an example; para` beside + ? to show. See Para- , and Diction .] An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] ``The paradigms and patterns of all things.'' ...
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We will return to this topic in later chapters, when we trace the rise of this metabiological absolutizing back to its source in the Enlightenment paradigm.
Enlightenment paradigm: the holism of nature produced the atomism of the self.
Enlightenment paradigm, there were two warring camps: flatland atomists and flatland holists.
And this is precisely, as we have seen, the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm: a perfectly holistic world that leaves a perfectly atomistic self.
Rudolf Ramm, Kurt Blome, Gerhard Wagner, and Walter Gross all believed absolutely in their ideology, theory, and linguistic paradigms.
I would word it, the enactive paradigm is a direct and explicitly stated attempt to integrate Left- and Right-Hand approaches to cognition, uniting lived experience and theoretical formulations.
For a discussion of their enactive paradigm, see notes 49 and 52 for chap.
I do not doubt that basic sensorimotor cognition and the early mental categorization process has many of the features outlined by the enactive paradigm.
Between these two paradigms of repetition there extends the border of donjuanesque eroticism whose furthest poles represent both its stake and its impossibility.
Postmodern experience no longer conforms to the print-centered, phallocentric paradigm of a distanced, objectifying, linear, and perspectival vision.
It was bound to become obsolescent sooner or later, just as sorites and paradigms and syllogisms became obsolete before it.
He turned to the control console and began inputting new instructions, altering the spacial and temporal paradigms.
They have their characters start mouthing trochaic hexameters, or spewing mouthfuls of classical allusions, or talking in formal riddles or paradigms.
This is the most immediate sociological and anthropological implication of the passage of economic paradigms.
That is to say, to each of those propositions corresponds a direct, repeatable, experiential disclosure, as interpreted in a community of those who have mastered the paradigm and displayed competence in the injunctions and exemplars.