paradigmatic
IPA: pˈɛrʌdaɪmˈætɪk
noun
- (historical, religion) A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to a paradigm.
- (philosophy) Related as members of a substitution class.
- (obsolete) Exemplary.
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Examples of "paradigmatic" in Sentences
- Indeed, he might be called paradigmatic of the new style: technically adept but soulless.
- There is a kind of paradigmatic subversion that channels explanations a certain way in all branches of science.
- And some people are what you would call paradigmatic thinkers, they’ve got a paradigm of the way the world works.
- The institute's first client was not famous at all but what Mr. Mellor calls a "paradigmatic" one who framed an injustice with crystal clarity.
- Putting aside for the moment that Anderson's own account of Sartre's career belies this statement, Sartre was not "paradigmatic" of anything except his own thinking and writing.
- This article traces the contours of a different kind of paradigmatic split, one that results in protracted confluence and contest rather than an immediate absorption of one model by another.
- I neither said nor meant anything whatever about an "identity crisis" of Hitler's, about any other crisis of Hitler's that was "paradigmatic," or about an "identity crisis of Germany after 1918."
- In any case, Christian critics of modernity too often paint with a big brush that does not capture elements of the Christian tradition present within paradigmatic representatives of modern liberalism.
- Insistence on that distinction not only renders aesthetic experience cold-hearted and dull, but it also fails to accommodate certain paradigmatic aesthetic affects, including the important role of emotions and their somatic register in the apprehension of art (Robinson; Shusterman).
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