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(not) Definitive Definitions

  • Writer: Johannes Lilischkis
    Johannes Lilischkis
  • Feb 3, 2016
  • 1 min read

Hey there reader, this is my first post, I hope you like it

It's come now to the second lesson of Applied Philosophy and we have been asked to write a couple definitions for some things. These words are; Paradigm and Philosophy. We were asked to write our own definition and then research the right definition to make sure that we know what we are talking about. So here were my definitions:

Paradigm: A set of socially accepted facts like that there are three states of matter (excluding plasma), or that the sky is blue.

Philosophy: The study of knowledge and humanity as a whole, it can be about science,maths, history, religion, etc.

Now come the definitions that I looked up online. I was surprised about how in-depth both of these words are and how much more there was to philosophy. I was also surprised how much philosophy and paradigms are linked.

Paradigm: A philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated; broadly : a philosophical or theoretica framework of any kind.

Philiosophy: A search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means.


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