paradigm

Universally recognized achievement which produces all the model problems and their solutions for a while in a scientific community.

In a computer science paradigm the data system is seen as a technological system where the user is only seen in human computer interaction.

by Esu November 25, 2003

The Point Dexter Paradigm

When the shy Caucasian male that no one talks to turns out to be packing a whole meat sandwich.

Tiffany: Eww, Tommy’s so gross
Emma: You’re right… but what if he’s packing

Tiffany: No way. Just look at him
Emma: But what about the Point Dexter Paradigm?

by UIU Speed Team March 9, 2022

paradigm

Big word used by prominant Republicans with small minds.

I don't know why I keep saying paradigm but they keep saying it at all the meetings I go to and I thought it sounded good.

by bob the barber August 30, 2003

paradigm-ond

–noun
1.
Grammar .
a.
a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. Reflected and refracted into a multi-colored luminous hue.

2.
an example serving as a model; pattern. Reflected and refracted into a multi-colored luminous hue.

The thoughts he was having were "paradigm-ond."

The vision the man had was in a "paradigm-ond" form.

by SOLARMOON April 1, 2011

paradigm

To have an unusually short sexual experience.

Eding Coitus abruptly

"That shag was shorter than paradigm"

"wanna go for a paradigm and a pizza?"

by <3 r0b May 23, 2003

Parascientific Paradigms

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.

by Dumu The Void February 9, 2026

Power Paradigms

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."

by Abzugal February 21, 2026