Paradigm vs Example - What's the difference?
paradigm | example |
An example serving as a model or pattern; a template.
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(linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
A system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.
A conceptual framework—an established thought process.
A way of thinking which can occasionally lead to misleading predispositions; a prejudice. A route of mental efficiency which has presumably been verified by affirmative results/predictions.
A philosophy consisting of ‘top-bottom’ ideas (namely biases which could possibly make the practitioner susceptible to the ‘confirmation bias’).
Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
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, title= Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
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, title= Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
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A person punished as a warning to others.
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A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
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An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
As nouns the difference between paradigm and example
is that paradigm is an example serving as a model or pattern; a template while example is something that is representative of all such things in a group.As a verb example is
to be illustrated or exemplified (by).paradigm
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Alternative forms
* paradigma (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”.
- DRT is a paradigm example of a dynamic semantic theory,
- The paradigm of "go" is "go, went, gone."
Synonyms
* (example) exemplar * (way of viewing reality) model, worldview * See alsoDerived terms
* paradigmatic * paradigm shift * paradigmaticismReferences
* * *example
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Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
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- For I have given you an example , that ye should do as I have done to you.
- I gave, thou sayest, the example ; I led the way.
- Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge,
- Hang him; he'll be made an example .
- Now these things were our examples , to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Such temperate order in so fierce a cause / Doth want example .