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Xbladefate25 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

What is the difference between "paradigm" and "dynamic"?

SOURCE: BRITANNICA DICTIONARYENTRIES:
1) DYNAMIC
Part of Speech: Noun1 : the way that two or more people behave with each other because of a particular situation[singular]
  • the dynamic between a doctor and a patient
  • the teacher-student dynamic
[plural]
  • Group dynamics are important to consider.
  • The dynamics of this class are different from those of other classes.
2 [count] : something that causes change or growth in something else
  • Disease was a central dynamic in the decrease in population.
  • a study on famine and population dynamics

2) PARADIGM:

NOUN

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[count] formal1 : a model or pattern for something that may be copied
  • Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.
2 : a theory or a group of ideas about how something should be done, made, or thought about
  • the Freudian paradigm of psychoanalysis
  • a new study that challenges the current evolutionary paradigm
  

Top answer

It hardly matters. They are both trendy and nebulous, and they stem from a misunderstanding of the original meanings of the words. The OED does not show the singular "dynamic" in the first meaning at all, and the first citation for "paradigm" in those meanings is from 1962, which I am relieved to learn.

— Anonymous

  • It hardly matters.
  • They are both trendy and nebulous, and they stem from a misunderstanding of the original meanings of the words.
  • The OED does not show the singular "dynamic" in the first meaning at all, and the first citation for "paradigm" in those meanings is from 1962, which I am relieved to learn.
  • I thought it was just me, and I'd missed it.
  • If you want to be taken seriously at the highest level, use some other words that actually mean something and say what you mean.
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It hardly matters. They are both trendy and nebulous, and they stem from a misunderstanding of the original meanings of the words. The OED does not show the singular "dynamic" in the first meaning at all, and the first citation for "paradigm" in those meanings is from 1962, which I am relieved to learn. I thought it was just me, and I'd missed it. If you want to be taken seriously at th

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xbladefate25 What is the difference between "paradigm" and "dynamic"

It depends on which of those definitions you compare.

dynamic (1), for example, is like '(personal) interactions', and paradigm (2) is like '(scientific) theory'.

These are the two definitions that come to my mind when I see those words. I don't see much connecti

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