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单词 paradigm
释义
paradigm

Computer
  • A model or example of the environment and methodology in which systems and software are developed and operated. For one operational paradigm there could be several alternative development paradigms. Examples are functional programming, logic programming, semantic data modelling, algebraic computing, numerical computing, object-oriented design, prototyping, and natural language dialogue.


Geology and Earth Sciences
  • Essentially, a large-scale and generalized model that provides a viewpoint from which the real world may be investigated. It differs from most other models, which are abstractions based on data derived from the real world.


Geography
  • The prevailing pattern of thought in a discipline or part of a discipline. Perhaps the most powerful Western paradigm has been the ‘scientific method’. T. Kuhn (1972) argued that the evolution of a new paradigm marks a new stage in thinking. This paradigm persists until too many anomalies occur, when it is replaced by a new paradigm that is able to explain the anomalies. In geography, for example, the regional geography paradigm was superseded by the quantitative revolution, and then the cultural turn.

    R. Inkpen (2005), pp. 18–21 is strongly recommended for paradigms in physical geography; Lomolino (2000) Glob. Ecol. & Biogeog. 9, 1 offers a new paradigm for island biogeography, and, in human geography, DeLyser and Shui (2013) PHG are concerned with the open-science paradigm and the ‘fourth paradigm’.


Philosophy
  • In the philosophy of science the notion is associated with Kuhn’s influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Kuhn suggests that certain scientific works, such as Newton’s Principia or John Dalton’s New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808), provide an open-ended resource: a framework of concepts, results, and procedures within which subsequent work is structured. Normal science proceeds within such a framework or paradigm. A paradigm does not impose a rigid or mechanical approach, but can be taken more or less creatively and flexibly. The concept was influential in supplanting the positivist conception of science as an abstract, rationally and logically structured set of propositions. Kuhn’s view emphasizes its concrete historical situation in the space of problems and approaches inherited from preceding achievements. A paradigm is only upset in periods of revolutionary science, typically arising in response to an accumulation of anomalies and stresses that cannot be resolved within its framework.


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