assumably etc. (was Re: "last stitch effort")

Alice Faber faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Mon Sep 27 13:58:49 UTC 2004


James Smith said:
>Where is this list?
>
>The first word I noticed coming out of nowhere into
>widespread use was "paradigm" in the 70's.  Of course
>it could have been in widespread use before I noticed
>it.  Usage seems to have dropped off.

"Paradigm" didn't come from nowhere in the 70s. It came from Thomas
Kuhn's _Structure of Scientific Revolutions_, with its lengthy
discussions of "paradigm shifts" in science.
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