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Paradigm
/ˈpæ.ɹə.daɪm/
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What it means
- noun
A pattern, a way of doing something, especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
“Thomas Kuhn's landmark “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” got people talking about paradigm shifts, to the point the word itself now suggests an incomplete or biased…”
- noun
An example serving as the model for such a pattern.
- noun
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.
“The paradigm of "go" is "go, went, gone."”
Where it comes from
Paradigm comes from Greek paradeigma, a pattern or model, from para, beside, and deiknunai, to show. In modern use it often means the working model of a science or a profession.
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