ivanyaru t1_j7neb5p wrote on February 8, 2023 at 1:23 AM Reply to The often misused buzzword Paradigm originated in extremely popular and controversial philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn's work; he defined the term in two core ways: firstly as a disciplinary matrix (similar to the concept of a worldview) and secondly as an exemplar by thelivingphilosophy I never got why he equated paradigm to mean exemplar. For a while I thought it could be a typo (or even a mistake) from paragon, but surely would have been caught in later revisions. Permalink 2
ivanyaru t1_j7neb5p wrote
Reply to The often misused buzzword Paradigm originated in extremely popular and controversial philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn's work; he defined the term in two core ways: firstly as a disciplinary matrix (similar to the concept of a worldview) and secondly as an exemplar by thelivingphilosophy
I never got why he equated paradigm to mean exemplar. For a while I thought it could be a typo (or even a mistake) from paragon, but surely would have been caught in later revisions.