Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. 1 A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated when new scientific discoveries produce anomaly in the current paradigm. 2 (context US English) A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new belief.
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A paradigm shift, as identified by American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn, is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. Kuhn contrasted these shifts, which characterize a scientific revolution, to the activity of normal science, which he described as scientific work done within a prevailing framework (or paradigm). In this context, the word "paradigm" is used in its original meaning, as " example" ( Greek: παράδειγμα).
The nature of scientific revolutions has been a question posed by modern philosophy since Immanuel Kant used the phrase in the preface to his Critique of Pure Reason (1781), referring to Greek mathematics and Newtonian physics. In the 20th century, new crises in the basic concepts of mathematics, physics, and biology, revitalized interest in the question among scholars. It was against this active background that Kuhn published his work.
Kuhn presented his notion of a paradigm shift in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). As one commentator summarizes:
Since the 1960s, the concept of a paradigm shift has also been used in numerous non-scientific contexts to describe a profound change in a fundamental model or perception of events, even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences.
Paradigm shift is a term to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science.
Paradigm Shift may also refer to:
- Paradigm Shift (album), a 1997 album by various artists
- The Paradigm Shift, the 11th studio album of the nu metal band Korn
- "Paradigm Shift", the first track on the 1998 album Liquid Tension Experiment by the band Liquid Tension Experiment
- Paradigm Shift, the book by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and his theology
Paradigm Shift is an album by various artists and recorded under the Nettwerk and Subconscious Communications record labels. It is Subconscious Communications' tenth release. The album also contains unreleased tracks that artist Dwayne Goettel never lived to see produced.
Usage examples of "paradigm shift".
The change from empty-world economics to full-world economics is a major paradigm shift.
Such changes were relatively rare, occurring about once a century, Darwinian evolution had forced a paradigm shift.
I think we've all been fooled into thinking that the revolution has already come and gone, that the CERN system was the paradigm shift we'd been waiting for.
Sheldrake states the very basis of paradigm shift: things are as they are because they were as they were.
For years people had speculated about how changed the world would be once alien intelligences were contacted, had proclaimed the massive paradigm shift to how humans thought of themselves that the discovery would engender.
But Goto Dengo takes it pretty calmly and instantly cross-correlates it to late-breaking developments in the Nipponese game industry, which has been doing this gradual paradigm shift from arcade to role-playing games with actual narratives.