Paradigm (publisher)
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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



  1. 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,
  2. 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."
  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 verified by affirmative results/predictions.
  6. A philosophy consisting of ‘top-bottom’ ideas (viz. biases which could possibly make the practitioner susceptible to the ‘confirmation bias’).
 
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