A condition with similar symptoms as bipolar disorder resulting from living in, but not fitting in with a society that makes little to no sense. Sufferers of paradigmosis often become activists or anarchists.
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“Sigmatism and parasigmatism and paralambdacism are strongly marked.” — The Mind of a Child” part ll by W. Preyer
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Example: "The conference on consciousness was a full-blown science paradigms struggle. The neuroscientists waved fMRI scans, the quantum biologists talked about orchestrated reductions, and the panpsychists quoted ancient philosophy. It was less a debate and more a three-way intellectual cage match with a cash bar." Science Paradigms Struggle
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Get the Science Paradigms Struggle mug.The grand, overarching theoretical frameworks within parasciences that are unfalsifiable by design. Like Thomas Kuhn's scientific paradigms, they dictate what questions are valid and what counts as evidence, but they are immune to revolution by empirical anomaly because anomalies are defined away as part of a conspiracy or as "not yet understood" within the paradigm.
Parascientific Paradigms Example: The "Ancient Astronaut" paradigm. Any archaeological mystery is evidence for the theory (aliens built the pyramids). The absence of evidence is also evidence (the cover-up). Any scientific debunking is framed as close-mindedness. This parascientific paradigm is a totalizing belief system that consumes all data, positive or negative, as fuel.
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Get the Parascientific Paradigms mug.The theory that whoever holds power determines not just policies but paradigms—the very frameworks through which reality is understood. Power Paradigms argues that truth, logic, science, and reality itself are shaped by those who control institutions, resources, and discourse. The powerful don't just dominate the world; they dominate the terms by which the world is understood. Paradigms shift not when evidence accumulates but when power shifts—when new groups gain the ability to define what counts as knowledge, what counts as reasonable, what counts as real. Power Paradigms explains why history is written by the victors, why certain knowledge is marginalized, why some truths are unspeakable. It's the theory that reality has a ruling class.
Example: "He used to think science was pure, objective, above politics. Then he learned about Power Paradigms—how funding shapes research, how institutions control publication, how those with power determine what counts as knowledge. Science wasn't corrupted; it was always political. The question wasn't whether power influenced knowledge, but whose power, and toward what ends."
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Get the Power Paradigms mug.The recognition that logic itself operates within paradigms—frameworks that determine what counts as logical, what methods are valid, what inferences are allowed. Logical Paradigms vary across cultures, historical periods, and domains. Classical logic is one paradigm; intuitionistic logic is another; paraconsistent logic is another; fuzzy logic is another. None is "logic itself"; all are logics, each adequate to certain purposes, each limited by its assumptions. Understanding Logical Paradigms is essential for escaping logical absolutism—the belief that one's own logic is logic.
Example: "He'd thought there was one logic—the logic. Logical Paradigms showed him otherwise: different logics for different purposes, different frameworks for different domains. His logic wasn't logic; it was a logic. The plural mattered."
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