Paradigm shifts

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Exodus 25:9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. [kjv]

The English word "paradigm" comes from the ancient Greek word "παράδειγμα" ≈ "pattern, example". In modern Greek, "paradigm" and "pattern" are this same word.

The word "paradigm" became popular in the 1960's due to the book by Thomas Kuhn who defined a paradigm shift as a radical change in the way one thinks about and solves a problem.

Paradigm shifts involve new concepts and often require one to think outside the box. One saying about change in relation it paradigms is that "shift happens".

The modern Greek word "παράδειγμα" (pa-RA-thee-gma) ≈ "pattern, paradigm".

Exodus 25:9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. [kjv]

και ποιησεις μοι κατα παντα οσα εγω σοι δεικνυω εν τω ορει το παραδειγμα της σκηνης και το παραδειγμα παντων των σκευων αυτης ουτω ποιησεις [lxx]

When Moses come down from Mount Sinai, he had (at least) two things.

tablets with the Ten Commandments
engineering blueprints for the tabernacle

The ancient Greek word "παράδειγμα" ≈ "pattern, example" and comes from the ancient Greek word "παραδείκνυμι" ≈ "show, compare". The ancient Greek word "σκηνή" ≈ "tent, theater stage" and is the source of the English word "scene".

Exodus 25:9

All

KJV: According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Hebrew: ככל אשר אני מראה אותך את תבנית המשכן ואת תבנית כל כליו וכן תעשו׃

Greek: και ποιησεις μοι κατα παντα οσα εγω σοι δεικνυω εν τω ορει το παραδειγμα της σκηνης και το παραδειγμα παντων των σκευων αυτης ουτω ποιησεις

The definition of an error and a desired change is very similar.
Both an error and a change are a difference between the observed behavior and the expected or desired behavior.

To identify an error requires a specification and one should not use the operational code (in programming, or reality in general) as a specification.

More: Errors and changes

There are examples of paradigm shifts in sports. That is, a radical (from the root) change in how things are done.

the high jump in track (Fosbury flop, 1968 Olympics)
kicking in American football (straight-on to soccer style)

A difficult type of change in organizations involves people. In general, it can take many lifetimes for ideas to change, since people tend to retain ideas far past the time when those ideas have been replaced by newer ideas. This is a central idea in Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
It is well documented and established (e.g. Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions") that new ideas take a long while to be adopted, for everyone but even more so for scientists, when one has held a previous idea.

everything as usual
model drift
model crisis
model revolution
paradigm change (perhaps over generations)
back to everything as usual

The ancient Greek word "τύπος" ≈ "impression, mark" is often translated as (passive) "example" rather than (active) "impression".

Philippians 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. [kjv]

συμμιμηται μου γινεσθε αδελφοι και σκοπειτε τους ουτως περιπατουντας καθως εχετε τυπον ημας [gnt]

Benjamin Franklin printer statue at Masonic Homes

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