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metaparadigm

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metaparadigm [met″ah-par´ah-dīm]
a set of concepts and propositions that sets forth the phenomena with which a discipline is concerned. A metaparadigm is the most general statement of a discipline and functions as a framework in which the more restricted structures of conceptual models develop.
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