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From: tim@zodiac.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PARADIGM FLAME
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 14:39:37 EST
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>>paradigm != model
>>So a PARADIGM is an EXAMPLE! and *NOT* a MODEL or PHILOSOPHY:
>>	Jordan

sorry, sport but i have to disagree with you and your dictionary (or at least 
your interpretation of the definition).  my websters II says:

paradigm: 1. a listing of all the inflection of a noun or verb taken as a model
	     for determining the forms of other words like it.
	  2. a pattern : model

also my Roget's II: The New Thesarus lists one alternative word for paradigm :
MODEL.  my first contact with this now ubiquitous word came in history classes,
not from computer folks.  the history professors used the word to mean
"a way of thinking about something".  (i.e. the change from a geocentric
view of the universe to a heliocentric view was a shift in paradigm).  sooooo,
give it a rest, bud.  you are wrong, wrong, wrong on this one.  the examples
you cited are perfectly appropriate uses of the word.

tim   tim@ads.arpa
Advanced Decision Systems
Mt. View, CA