The paradigmatic idea was that society under the prophet Muhammad had attained a perfection from which later generations were condemned to live at an exponentially increasing remove.
Some of the phrasing is no doubt neoplatonist rather than Xenocratean, but the formulation, 'the idea is a paradigmatic cause', seems to be, as Proclus says, Xenocrates' attempt to capture Plato's intent: see here Plato, Parmenides 132d.
The relations of the group thesis strengthen the idea of a paradigmatic thesis that has a strong connection to the task (purpose) of the school as a whole as well as to the assessment of learning and optionality.
As the inevitable horse-trading continues (and talking of horses, I have even heard animal rights mooted as a possible theme for inclusion, which actually is not such a bad idea), it is easy to forget that three paradigmatic shifts already apparently in the bag will change the narrative of development for better and for good.
I thought that our friendship was paradigmatic of our time and of our place.
We illustrate a few paradigmatic methods applied to problems of prediction, classification and smoothing, giving emphasis to the key ideas Object Oriented Spatial Statistics relies upon.
Thus, for Rawls, some of the paradigmatic examples of the political values of justice and public reason would include: the idea of equal basic liberties; the idea of equality of opportunity; and principles concerning a just distribution of income and wealth (Rawls 1999b, 584).
The core idea is that the truth of Analytic explains the truth of Intuitive Metaphysical (our paradigmatic metaphysical supervenience thesis).
A more radical critique of the paradigmatic natural law account of the connection between the good and the right calls into question the very idea that one can get principles of moral rightness merely from what constitutes a defective response to the good.
One might object, following the criticisms leveled by Wasserstrom and Cavanagh at the arbitrariness and merit accounts, respectively, that the idea of a normatively extraneous feature is too abstract to capture what makes racial discrimination a paradigmatic form of direct discrimination.
