Paradigms are sustained by common will or by a force standing in for it.

Evidence

The theory then assumes that phenomena are structured paradigmatically and that certain ideas, material structures, “ideological” positions, and institutions stand in them as paradigms or in relation to paradigms. Authors, like all participants in paradigms and domains, stand, or are made to stand, in a particular relationship to them, for paradigms are possible only through common will, or a driving force that may substitute for such will. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 67

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Upright posture is a selected habit sustained by unconscious will; Institutions persist by making analogies that make their practices appear natural. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 70