whats a paradigm? (1 Viewer)

[YannY]

can some explain to me what the word paradigm means? Thanks

 

[boris]

It's hard to explain

I guess you can say it's a way of thinking, a pattern of thinking.

The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary defines it as "a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated; broadly : a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm

 

[YannY]

Thanks i think i kinda understand - could you give me an example?

 

[boris]

I take it you're doing RFTG?

Okay, say we define a paradigm as a way of thinking or a pattern...
Consider this statement
"One world paradigm that almost everyone subscribed to for several centuries is the feudal paradigm. Feudal society was based on "fealty", or the fidelity or faithfulness to a lord. During the Middle Ages, after the fall of the Roman Empire, almost everyone had a "lord", including the lords themselves."

and then

"the sovereign individual paradigm. This world view is that every individual can make the best decisions for himself"

See how the pattern, or the way of thinking has changed? That's the paradigm.

 

[YannY]

Oh i think i get it, its like in physics where people believed the falling of an object was due to its mass and now we believe that its due to gravity. Is that a paradigm?

Thanks