nateberkopec t1_j7mgmjm wrote on February 7, 2023 at 9:27 PM 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 Google Ngram viewer kind of confirms this. Basically no usage of the the word until about 1962, when The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was released. Permalink 1
nateberkopec t1_j7mgmjm 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
Google Ngram viewer kind of confirms this. Basically no usage of the the word until about 1962, when The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was released.