paradigm shift

English

WOTD – 26 August 2012    

Etymology

Wikipedia

Coined by Thomas Kuhn in 1962.

Noun

paradigm shift

1. A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated when new scientific discoveries produce anomalies in the current paradigm.
2. (US) A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new belief.
   • 1996, Shahariz Abdul Aziz, Jeyakody Parthiban, Fuzzy Sets and Operations

     Fuzzy Set Theory was formalised by Professor Lofti Zadeh at the University of California in 1965. What Zadeh proposed is very much a paradigm shift that first gained acceptance in the Far East and its successful application has ensured its adoption around the world.

Translations

change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated by scientific discoveries

• Czech: posun paradigmatu (cs) m
• Dutch: paradigmawissel (nl) m, paradigmawisseling (nl) f
• Finnish: paradigman muutos (fi)
• German: Paradigmenwechsel (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: paradigmeskifte (nb) n

  Nynorsk: paradigmeskifte (nn) n

• Spanish: cambio de paradigma (es) m
• Swedish: paradigmskifte (sv) n

(US, English buzzwords) change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new belief

• Finnish: ajattelutavan muutos (fi)

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• Icelandic: hugarfarsbreyting f