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{{a|philosophy|{{subtable|[[File:Paradigm.jpg|450px|frameless|center]]<center>Well, ''you'' try finding a decent image of a paradigm. Besides, this is taken in the wonderful Ostallgäu. That is Hopfensee in the distance. So there.</center>}}
[[File:Paradigm.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Well, ''you'' try finding a decent image of a paradigm. Besides, this is taken in the wonderful Ostallgäu. That is Hopfensee in the distance. So there.]]
}}{{d|Paradigm|/ˈpærədaɪm/|n|}}<br>1. (''[[Epistemology|Epistemology]]; nowadays rare'') The idea, first finding voice in {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}’s spectacular {{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}} that any academic discipline comprises not just a body of canonical knowledge, but a language, world-view, hierarchy, intellectual tradition and social organisation which,  prevents you from credibly sounding off about it until you have fully assimilated it and, basically, been indoctrinated by it. Not that it has ever stopped the JC trying.  
}}{{d|Paradigm|/ˈpærədaɪm/|n|}}<br>1. (''[[Epistemology|Epistemology]]; nowadays rare'') The idea, first finding voice in {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}’s spectacular {{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}} that any academic discipline comprises not just a body of canonical knowledge, but a language, world-view, hierarchy, intellectual tradition and social organisation which,  prevents you from credibly sounding off about it until you have fully assimilated it and, basically, been indoctrinated by it. Not that it has ever stopped the JC trying.  


2. (''Management consultancy, distressingly common''): 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.   
2. (''Management consultancy, distressingly common''): 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.   


3. A [[power structure]]: the political organisation around an idea, that confers authority on those who have qualified themselves to husband that idea. This can be obvious and institutional, as with a political organisation or the scientific academy — but it can be small-time: that’s how all power structures start: a student union is a power structure, a chat forum is a power structure. Even people who ''complain'' about power structures — at least ones who do in an organised and compelling way — have a power structure. [[Critical theory]] has a power structure. Power structures often outgrow their original purpose, because it is not the ''purpose'' but the ''power'' that is exciting.
3. '''A [[hierarchy]] or [[power structure]]''': the political organisation around an idea, that confers authority on those who have qualified themselves to husband that idea.  


==Thomas Kuhn’s paradigms==
==Thomas Kuhn’s paradigms==
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