Where does paradigm collide?

In grammar the paradigm is the complete set of inflected forms that a single word takes, such as the case forms of a Latin noun or the tenses of a verb. This is the oldest meaning of the word, rooted in the ancient grammatical tradition of Dionysius Thrax (Technē grammatikē, ca. 100 BCE), and it is treated in modern morphology by Matthews (1991), where a paradigm is the organised table of a word's variant shapes. The referent here is a fixed pattern of word forms in a language, not a scientist's worldview, a laboratory task, or a style of writing computer code.[1][2]

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One inflectional pattern: the full set of case, number, tense, or person forms of a word

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Laid out as declension or conjugation tables and compared across word classes and languages

In the philosophy of science a paradigm is the shared framework that guides a research community during periods of normal science: the accepted exemplars, methods, and assumptions that define legitimate problems and their solutions. Kuhn set out this meaning in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), where science advances through long normal periods punctuated by revolutions that replace one paradigm with another. Kuhn drew the word from grammar, where a paradigm is a model to be imitated, but his referent is a whole discipline's worldview, not a table of word forms, a laboratory task, or a programming style.[3]

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One disciplinary framework: the shared exemplars, methods, and assumptions of a research community

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Identified by historians through a field's shared textbooks, exemplar problems, and accepted methods

In computer science a paradigm is a general style or model of computation, such as procedural, functional, object-oriented, or logic programming. Floyd named this meaning in his Turing Award lecture, published in 1979 as The paradigms of programming, arguing that mastering several such styles makes a better programmer and that languages should support them. The referent is a way of organising computation and code, not a word's inflected forms, a scientist's worldview, or a fixed laboratory task.[4]

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One model of computation: a general style such as procedural, functional, or logic programming

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Described by the language features and problem-solving structures a style provides