A pair of dimes gives you twenty: A Look at Paradigms

Dr. Fred Clary, founder of Functional Analysis Chiropractic Technique offers some thoughts:Who is driving your car?   Your car of life? You may think it is you since you are behind the wheel, but many times our beliefs are really not ours.  They are our teacher's and preacher's and friend's and family's beliefs that have been placed on us.  They are driving the car and we are not even aware of it.  Your view of reality is your Paradigm.  This episode looks at the paradigm.   Paradigm: A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. 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 theoretical framework of any kind. Since the late 1960s, the word paradigm has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context.Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn gave this word its contemporary meaning when he adopted it to refer to the set of practices that define a scientific discipline during a particular period of time. Kuhn himself came to prefer the terms exemplar and normal science, which have more exact philosophical meanings. However, in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn defines a scientific paradigm as:what is to be observed and scrutinized, the kind of questions that are supposed to be asked and probed for answers in relation to this subject, how these questions are to be structured, how the results of scientific investigations should be interpreted. Your Paradigm controls what questions and answers you accept about this world.  Your paradigm controls YOU.