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Paradigm vs Gestalt - What's the difference?

paradigm | gestalt |

As nouns the difference between paradigm and gestalt

is that paradigm is an example serving as a model or pattern; a template while gestalt is (gestalt).

paradigm

English

Alternative forms

* paradigma (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An example serving as a model or pattern; a template.
  • * 2000 , "":
  • According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”.
  • * 2003 , Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 65058 5, page 46:
  • DRT is a paradigm example of a dynamic semantic theory,
  • (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.
  • The paradigm of "go" is "go, went, gone."
  • 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’).
  • Synonyms

    * (example) exemplar * (way of viewing reality) model, worldview * See also

    Derived terms

    * paradigmatic * paradigm shift * paradigmaticism

    References

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    gestalt

    Alternative forms

    * Gestalt

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being)
  • :* This biography is the first one to consider fully the writer's gestalt .
  • :* The clusters of behavioral gestalten'''... the probability factors... the subtypes of crimes... the constellations of criminal subtypes...'' — Jay Kirk, "Watching the Detectives", Harpers Magazine, Vol. 307, Iss. 1839; pg. 61, Aug, ' 2003
  • shape, form
  • :* Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt'''. "I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGovern's hometown," she said, "and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that."'' — John L Hess and Karen Hess, "The Taste of America", Grossman, New York, ' 1977
  • :* ... depending on the kinds of speech children hear directed to them, they may first learn unanalyzed "gestalts'''" (e.g., social expressions like "What's that?" uttered as a single unit) instead of learning single words that are then freely recombined ...''— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, "The Origins of Grammar", The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, ' 1996
  • :* So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts''' that we had something of an epic rivalry from '74 through '77.'' — David Foster Wallace, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", Boston: Little, Brown and Co., Edition: 1st Back Bay ed., ' 1998
  • Derived terms

    * gestaltic * gestalting * gestalt psychology * Gestalt therapy