paradigm shift
Noun
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Noun
paradigm shift (plural paradigm shifts)
- A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated when new scientific discoveries produce anomalies in the current paradigm. [from 1962]
- (US) A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new belief.
- 1996, Shahariz Abdul Aziz, Jeyakody Parthiban, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111005200553/http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol4/sbaa/report.fuzzysets.html Fuzzy Sets and Operations]
- Fuzzy Set Theory was formalised by Professor Lofti Zadeh at the University of California in 1965. What Zadeh proposed is very much a paradigm shift that first gained acceptance in the Far East and its successful application has ensured its adoption around the world.
- 1996, Shahariz Abdul Aziz, Jeyakody Parthiban, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111005200553/http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol4/sbaa/report.fuzzysets.html Fuzzy Sets and Operations]
- French: changement de paradigme
- German: Paradigmenwechsel
- Italian: cambiamento di paradigma, mutamento di paradigma, scienza rivoluzionaria
- Portuguese: mudança de paradigma
- Russian: сме́на парадигм
- Spanish: cambio de paradigma
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