Once a year, I teach a Masters course at University of Malaya in the Science Faculty and under the aegis of the Science and Technology Policy Department. One of the key and core issues we deal with is what is called the knowledge paradigm.

Paradigm is a very big word, made popular in Western science and epistemology by Thomas Kuhn in his now famous, ‘Structure of Scientific Revolutions’. In it he defined what paradigms are and what they are not. Since then, over time, the word paradigm has become now very popular, to almost the point of being bastardized.