paradigm

  1. Noun.  An example serving as a model or pattern; a template.
  2. Noun.  (linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
  3. Noun.  A system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.
  4. Noun.  A conceptual framework—an established thought process.
  5. Noun.  A way of thinking which can occasionally lead to misleading predispositions; a prejudice. A route of mental efficiency which has presumably been verified by affirmative results/predictions.
  6. Noun.  A philosophy consisting of ‘top-bottom’ ideas (namely biases which could possibly make the practitioner susceptible to the ‘confirmation bias’).

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