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{{a|philosophy| | {{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>}} | ||
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}}{{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. | ||