metaparadigm

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.

metaparadigm

(mĕt-ă-păr-ă-dīm′) The concepts that identify the phenomena of central interest to a discipline; the propositions that describe those concepts and their relationships to each other.