Paradigms distribute a shared conceptual structure across central and peripheral domains alike.

Evidence

Calling, after Schmitt’s own linguistic usage, the noncentral domains “peripheral,” we must acknowledge a dialectical relationship between the central and peripheral domains. The “solutions” provided for the latter do not just “follow as a matter of course” and only “if the problems of the central domain are solved.” In our account of paradigm, what is involved is a system of knowledge and practice whose constituent domains share in common a particular structure of concepts that qualitatively distinguishes them from equivalent domains in other systems. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 73

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines paradigm as a system of knowledge whose domains share a common structure of concepts, in contrast to Schmitt’s linear account.