Paradigm
WordNet
noun
(1) A standard or typical example
"He is the prototype of good breeding"
"He provided America with an image of the good father"
(2) The generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
"He framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"
(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)
(4) Systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
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Etymology
Established 1475-85 from , from .
Noun
- An example serving as a model or pattern.
- 2000, "Estate of William F. Jenkins v. Paramount Pictures Corp.":
- According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”.
- 2003, Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 65058 5, page 46:
- DRT is a paradigm example of a dynamic semantic theory,
- 2000, "Estate of William F. Jenkins v. Paramount Pictures Corp.":
- 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."
- A system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.
- A conceptual framework—an established thought process.
- A way of thinking which can occasionally lead to misleading predispositions; a prejudice. A route of mental efficiency which has presumably been verified by affirmative results/predictions.
- A philosophy consisting of ‘top-bottom’ ideas (viz. biases which could possibly make the practitioner susceptible to the ‘confirmation bias’).