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 %PARADIGM ELEMENTS COHERENCE SUPPORT RESPECT POWER+950721
 %IDEALS VALUES GOALS ATTITUDES ASSUMPTIONS BELIEFS+950721
    %TRADITIONS EQUIPMENT CONCEPTS WORDS EXCLUSIONS+950721
    %PROFESSION TEACHERS PROFESSORS GRADUATE SCHOOL+950721
    %BOOKS PUBLICATIONS MAGAZINES JOURNALS MEETINGS 950721

     A  mature  paradigm has many powerful elements  which
make up what appears to be a coherent whole with a kind of
integrity which is worthy of respect and support.     Both
those  who  are participants within a paradigm,  and those
who  respect a paradigm as outsiders,  need to be aware of
the nature of the  elements which make up a paradigm---and
how  it  is  possible for  a paradigm to mislead both  its
participants and its admirers.

     The following words are suggestive of the elements of
a paradigm:

     ASSUMPTIONS         BELIEFS           CONVICTIONS

     ATTITUDES           IDEALS            VALUES

     GOALS               TRADITIONS        RITUALS

     VOCABULARY          WORDS             CONCEPTS

     FOCI                EXCLUSIONS        PREOCCUPATIONS

     EQUIPMENT           BOOKS             MAGAZINES

     JOURNALS            EDITORS           MEETINGS

     PROFESSIONALS       LEADERS           SCHOOLS

     GRADUATES           PROFESSORS        ADMINISTRATORS

     RULES               REGULATIONS       STANDARDS

     ORGANIZATIONS       IMAGES            VISIONS

     The  hazard is that the very features of the paradigm
which  help  its incarnations to focus their attention  in
productive  ways---may  also  blind  its  incarnations  to
truths  which they would prefer not to be aware of.    The
hazards which may  make  a  paradigm  to be dysfunctional,
misleading  and  disintegrative---can  be  pointed  to  by
statements  which  make  use of the  following  words  and
cognates of them:

     EXCLUSIVITY         REJECTIONS        NARROWNESS

     DISHONESTY          COLLUSIONS        ADDICTIONS

     FIXATIONS           COMPULSIONS       CODEPENDENCE

     FEARS               APPREHENSIONS     ANXIETIES

     CONTROLS            MANIPULATIONS     DECEPTIONS

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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