The phrase "paradigm case" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in formal or academic writing to describe a typical or classic example of something. Example: In the study of social behavior, the prisoner's dilemma is often seen as a paradigm case for understanding the complexities of cooperation and competition among individuals.
After the Second World War, England was no longer the "paradigm case" of Western industrial society.
First, in a democracy, the Constitution directed the Court to insure equal rights for minority groups who might persistently lose out in the political process, with African-Americans being the paradigm case.
The paradigm case came from Colmar, France, in the middle of the 19th century, when the defendant built a large and totally unnecessary chimney on the roof of his house in order to block the light to his neighbour's windows.
It is therefore natural to extend the word materialist beyond the above paradigm case (of mechanical materialism) to cover anyone who bases his theory on whatever it is that physics asserts ultimately to exist.
The strategy is no more complicated than asserting that the president has done a good job and deserves another term, the paradigm case perhaps being Ronald Reagan's 1984 "Morning in America" campaign.
The paradigm case of reasoning is the solution of syllogisms; for example, when we conclude that Socrates is mortal given the two separate premises that Socrates is a man and that all men are mortal.
Actually, Allahpundit likes it on ideological grounds as well as strategic: "All [the state is] doing is denying gays the label of marriage to preserve a sense of stigma, which is almost a paradigm case of what equal protection is meant to prevent.
The paradigm case for an exogenous decline in the market — that is, one which is not well explained by economic fundamentals — is Black Monday, the Oct. 19, 1987 crash in which the Dow Jones lost almost 23 percent of its value for reasons that remain poorly understood by traders, economists, and mathematicians.
The paradigm case in this debate is shared experience.
Helmholtz's equations are a paradigm case of mathematical idealizations in physics.
But a healthy, adult human organism seems a paradigm case of a thinking being.
