Meanings
- pluralplural of paradigma
These paradigmata, these basic visions of life’s meaning, become the foundations for developing levels of value consciousness, as well as the concrete integrating principle of a world-view.
1965, F. Warren Rempel, The Role of Value in Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of Knowledge, Mouton, page 88 - pluralplural of paradigm
Masterman M. found more than 22 different meanings of paradigm in Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolution. She classifies these paradigmata in 3 main categories: metaphysical paradigms or meta[-]paradigms; Sociological paradigms and artifact or construct paradigms.
1983, International symposium on Chinese-western cultural interchange in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Matteo Ricci, S.J. in China, page 7585 more examples
Keeping this in view we can construct the following paradigm:[…]We thus see that any original simplicity that may have existed in the paradigmata of these words has got thoroughly obscured; and, further that the consonantal stem has often, in one way or another, been changed into a vowel stem, or had a vowel stem substituted for it (cf. Brugmann, Archiv für lateinische Lexicographie u. Grammatik, xv. p. 3 n. 2).
1908, Classical Association, Classical Quarterly, page 266Wittgenstein himself frequently has recourse to the paradigm-model to illustrate this synthetic achievement. / In Wittgenstein’s opinion the use of many expressions is bound to certain models and paradigmata.[…]Now, Wittgenstein also transfers this scheme to cases where the use of the sign has become independent of an external paradigm and is effected by means of “memory and association” alone (cf. P. I. 53). The use of our ordinary colour words, for instance, is of this kind. In drawing up the relevant sign usage one has admittedly made use of external paradigmata (for colour names can only be ostensively explained), but later the external models had been completely dropped since memory was able to take over the paradigmatic function by itself.
1969 [1963], D. E. Walford, transl., The Foundations of Wittgenstein’s Late Philosophy, Manchester University Press, translation of original by Ernst Konrad Specht, →ISBN, pages 160–161Secondly KUHN’s concept of paradigmata could be of significance. Whereas medical scientists seem to stick to primary paradigmata of their discipline, in medical practice secondary paradigmata are supposed to govern the problem-solving process towards diagnostic and therapeutical decisions. Such a secondary paradigm would be characteristic of a technology.
1978, European Association of Institutions in Higher Education, Congress materials, →ISBN, page 157If we want to study the above phenomena in relation to specific indexing or classification tools, we will have to bring in the third paradigm (instruments). / The minor paradigmata / We have already met some problems of delimitation of IS in the paradigm of operations, but as a whole, problems of that kind are not very important in the major paradigmata.
1980, Theory and Application of Information Research: Proceedings of the Second International Research Forum on Information Science, 3-6 August 1977, Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen, →ISBN, page 17As regards methodology, the point of departure is a consideration of the morphological differences between the paradigmata of the verb (e.g. the difference between the perfect- and imperfect-paradigm) and the variations in such a paradigm (e.g. imperfect forms with and without the nūn-paragogicum).
1988, L.J. de Regt, “Chapter 1. Introduction to a Textual Corpus”, in A Parametric Model for Syntactic Studies of a Textual Corpus, Demonstrated on the Hebrew of Deuteronomy 1-30, Van Gorcum & Comp., →ISBN, “1. Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Aspects of Parameters, page 3
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