word
paradigm shift
PAR-uh-dym SHIFT
ˈpærədaɪm ʃɪftListen
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paradigmshift
Dictionary meaning
a fundamental change in the basic assumptions, concepts, values, and practices within a scientific discipline; coined by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe the non-incremental revolutions through which science advances; during normal science practitioners solve puzzles within the reigning paradigm, but accumulating anomalies eventually trigger a crisis that a new paradigm resolves through a gestalt-like reconceptualisation incomprehensible to adherents of the old framework
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