Paradigmology

The study of paradigms—how they are constructed, how they shift, and how they constrain and enable knowledge. Paradigmology draws on Thomas Kuhn and subsequent philosophy of science to examine the social and cognitive structures that define what counts as normal science, what questions are worth asking, and what methods are legitimate. It also studies paradigm shifts: how anomalies accumulate, how old guard resists change, and how new frameworks eventually take hold. Paradigmology reveals that even the most 'objective' sciences operate within paradigms that are partly social, not purely logical. Understanding it helps recognize when a field is stuck in an aging paradigm.

Example: “His paradigmology work traced how plate tectonics went from heresy to textbook—not just by evidence, but by generational replacement and institutional change.”

Paradigmology by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 2, 2026

Paradigmology

The study of paradigms—the frameworks that define what is thinkable in a given community—using Kremlinological methods. Paradigmologists infer the hidden rules of permissible discourse from what can be said, what cannot be said, and what is simply not thought. Like Sovietologists knowing that certain topics were unmentionable not because of censorship but because the conceptual language didn’t exist, paradigmologists study how scientific, political, or cultural paradigms enforce orthodoxy without explicit bans. They analyze which theories are funded, which are ridiculed, and which are simply ignored. Paradigmology reveals that the most powerful controls are the ones that make alternatives literally unimaginable.

Example: "Paradigmology research showed that in mainstream economics, the idea of a post‑growth society was not debated or refuted—it was simply absent, as invisible as a heresy in a theocracy."

Paradigmology by Abzugal April 2, 2026