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{{ | {{def|Paradigm|/ˈpærədaɪm/|n|}}1. (''[[Epistemology|Epistemology]]; nowadays rare'') The idea, first finding voice in {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}’s spectacular {{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}} that any acadamic discipline comprises not just a body of canonical knowledge, but a language, world-view, hierarchy, intellectual tradition and social organisation which, until you have fully assimilated it, prevents you from credibly sounding off about it. Not that it has ever stopped the JC trying. | ||
2. (''Management consultancy''): A fashionable idea someone else had recently that you are now cottoning on to that promises to, but won’t, profoundly change the commercial world. | |||
In its sensible state, a paradigm describes how a science operates, and how scientific theories are challenged, and fall. | |||
As Kuhn noticed, ''pace'' Karl Popper, one does not abandon a scientific theory just because you see some contradictory evidence: you tap the dial, you re-run the experiment, you devise “numerous articulations and [[ad hoc]] modifications” to eliminate the apparent conflict. | As Kuhn noticed, ''pace'' Karl Popper, one does not abandon a scientific theory just because you see some contradictory evidence: you tap the dial, you re-run the experiment, you devise “numerous articulations and [[ad hoc]] modifications” to eliminate the apparent conflict. | ||