A paradigm does not impose a rigid or mechanical approach, but can be taken more or less creatively and flexibly. Normal science proceeds within such a framework or paradigm. Kuhn suggests that certain scientific works, such as Newton's Principia or John Dalton's New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808), provide an open-ended resource: a framework of concepts, results, and procedures within which subsequent work is structured. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy attributes the following description of the term to Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary defines this usage as "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." In linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure used paradigm to refer to a class of elements with similarities. The term had a technical meaning in the field of grammar: the 1900 Merriam-Webster dictionary defines its technical use only in the context of grammar or, in rhetoric, as a term for an illustrative parable or fable. The original Greek term παράδειγμα ( paradeigma) was used in Greek texts such as Plato's Timaeus (28 AD) and Parmenides as one possibility for the model or the pattern that the demiurge used to create the cosmos.
Anaximenes defined paradeigma as "actions that have occurred previously and are similar to, or the opposite of, those which we are now discussing." It is not the job of a personal accountant to tell their client exactly what (and what not) to spend their money on, but to aid in guiding their client as to how money should be spent based on their financial goals.
One way of how a paradeigma is meant to guide an audience would be a personal accountant.
This illustration is not meant to take the audience to a conclusion, however it is used to help guide them there. In rhetoric, the purpose of paradeigma is to provide an audience with an illustration of similar occurrences. Paradigm comes from Greek παράδειγμα ( paradeigma), "pattern, example, sample" from the verb παραδείκνυμι ( paradeiknumi), "exhibit, represent, expose" and that from παρά ( para), "beside, beyond" and δείκνυμι ( deiknumi), "to show, to point out".