Paradigmata

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.

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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).

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Wittgenstein 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.

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Secondly 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.

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