Difference between Image and Paradigm

What is the difference between Image and Paradigm?

Image as a noun is an optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. while Paradigm as a noun is an example serving as a model or pattern.

Image

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to represent symbolically To reflect, mirror To create a complete backup copy of a filesystem.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. A mental picture of something not real or not present. A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy) A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others. Something mapped to by a function. The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.

Example sentence: I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Paradigm

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An example serving as a model or pattern.A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.A system of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.A conceptual framework—an established thought process.A way of thinking which can occasionally lead to misleading predispositions; a prejudice. A route of mental efficiency which has presumably been verified by affirmative results/predictions.A philosophy consisting of ‘top-bottom' ideas (namely biases which could possibly make the practitioner susceptible to the ‘confirmation bias').

Example sentence: We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

We hope you now know whether to use Image or Paradigm in your sentence.

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