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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
paradigm
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
paradigm shift
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dominant
▪ Kuhn argues that science education is characterized by an uncritical teaching of the dominant paradigm within a subject.
▪ The currently dominant paradigm throughout urban and regional sociology gives prime emphasis to class relations and processes.
▪ First, bodies of thought take on a solidity through being structured around dominant paradigms.
▪ This transference is exactly what one would expect if the dominant cultural paradigm is, as I have maintained, science.
▪ Lindsey also finds that citation counts favour the scientist doing work in the mainstream or dominant paradigm.
▪ The dominant paradigm within class-based urban and regional analysis nevertheless usually recognises the difficulties involved in creating a well-organised international working class.
new
▪ The danger, however, is that the study of new paradigms remains a purpose in itself.
▪ At best, what will emerge from this bureaucratic morass is an entirely new paradigm for dealing with cross-border studies.
▪ The new paradigm will be very different from and incompatible with the old one.
▪ Massive bottom-up infrastructure sprouted all over the world in bits and pieces, proliferated, and a new paradigm was created.
▪ Such a perception was to lead to a new kind of paradigm or conceptual map.
▪ The technical challenge is obvious when one realizes that traditional models of information management do not lend themselves to the new paradigm.
▪ Would that bury the new economic paradigm?
▪ A smaller structure makes it easier to make the transition to a new organizational paradigm.
old
▪ When this happens, there is a scientific revolution and the old paradigm is replaced with a new one.
▪ The old organizational paradigm encouraged employees to view themselves as the occupants of a box called a job.
■ NOUN
shift
▪ Either Mrs David has had an enormous impact on her countrymen or a major paradigm shift has occurred.
▪ Can we expect to see a paradigm shift, where people want to drive less?
▪ To wit, a paradigm shift.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Community interaction of this kind could be a paradigm for race relations in the future.
▪ The needs of today's children cannot be met by our old educational paradigms.
▪ The Vietnam War has become a powerful anti-war paradigm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although they embody a real-world claim about how agents are motivated, they function more like a paradigm than a generalization.
▪ At best, what will emerge from this bureaucratic morass is an entirely new paradigm for dealing with cross-border studies.
▪ Kuhn's own account of science entails that what is to count as a problem is paradigm or community dependent.
▪ Kuhn argues that science education is characterized by an uncritical teaching of the dominant paradigm within a subject.
▪ Much of modern sociology lacks a paradigm and consequently fails to qualify as science.
▪ New paradigms are sure to emerge.
▪ The old organizational paradigm encouraged employees to view themselves as the occupants of a box called a job.
▪ The prospects for experimental tests of the dynamical transition paradigm seem particularly promising in the case of focal epilepsy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paradigm

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.]

  1. An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] ``The paradigms and patterns of all things.''
    --Cudworth.

  2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.

  3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.

  4. (Science) A theory providing a unifying explanation for a set of phenomena in some field, which serves to suggest methods to test the theory and develop a fuller understanding of the topic, and which is considered useful until it is be replaced by a newer theory providing more accurate explanations or explanations for a wider range of phenomena.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
paradigm

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 "to show" (cognate with Latin dicere "to show;" see diction). Related: Paradigmatic; paradigmatical.

Wiktionary
paradigm

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, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality. 4 A conceptual framework—an established thought process. 5 A way of thinking which can occasionally lead to misleading predispositions; a prejudice. A route of mental efficiency which has presumably been verify by affirmative results/predictions. 6 A philosophy consisting of ‘top-bottom’ ideas (namely biases which could possibly make the practitioner susceptible to the ‘confirmation bias’).

WordNet
paradigm
  1. n. systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

  2. a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" [syn: prototype, epitome, image]

  3. the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) [syn: substitution class]

  4. the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"

Wikipedia
Paradigm

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.

Paradigm (disambiguation)

A paradigm, in science and epistemology, is a distinct concept or thought pattern

Paradigm may also refer to:

Paradigm (experimental)

An experimental paradigm, in the behavioural sciences (e.g. psychology, biology, neurosciences), is an experimental setup (i.e. a way to conduct a certain type of experiment) that is defined by certain fine-tuned standards and often has a theoretical background. A paradigm in this technical sense, however, is not a way of thinking as it is in the epistemological meaning.

Paradigm (comics)

Paradigm is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe, created for their comic book series X-Force. His first appearance was in X-Force #87.

Paradigm (publisher)

is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Suginami, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. The company mainly publishes novels based on adult visual novel video games.

Paradigm (Image Comics)

Paradigm is a comic book series by Matthew Cashel and Jeremy Haun.

Paradigm (video game)

Paradigm is an upcoming point-and-click adventure video game for Microsoft Windows. The game is being developed and designed by Jacob Janerka.

Usage examples of "paradigm".

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.