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  2. Literary nominalism - Wikipedia

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    Since the early 1990s, various scholars have added their voices to the discussion of the paradigm, either to confirm or critique its value for literary studies. Various other terms, especially Ockhamism, have also been used especially in claims for the influence of William of Ockham on individual writers and their works. [3]

  3. World Hypotheses - Wikipedia

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    A seed planted in favorable conditions, unfolding and maturing into a tree, is an example of an organismic system. The root metaphor for organicism is inquiring how living systems maintain adaptive balances between acting on the environment and being acted on and supported by the environment.

  4. WIMP (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A word processing program that uses a WIMP paradigm, providing mouse-operated toolbars and menus to access its functions. In human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for "windows, icons, menus, pointer", [1] [2] [3] denoting a style of interaction using these elements of the user interface. Other expansions are sometimes used, such as ...

  5. Paradigmatic analysis - Wikipedia

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    A list of syntagms of the same type is called a paradigm. So, in English, the alphabet is the paradigm from which the syntagms of words are formed. The set of words collected together in a lexicon becomes the paradigm from which sentences etc. are formed. Hence, paradigmatic analysis is a method for exploring a syntagm by identifying its ...

  6. Desktop metaphor - Wikipedia

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    The paper paradigm consists of, usually, black text on a white background, files within folders, and a "desktop". The paper paradigm was created by many individuals and organisations, such as Douglas Engelbart , Xerox PARC , and Apple Computer , and was an attempt to make computers more user-friendly by making them resemble the common workplace ...

  7. Post-WIMP - Wikipedia

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    The reason WIMP interfaces have become so prevalent since their conception at Xerox PARC is that they are very good at abstracting work-spaces, documents, and their actions. Their analogous desktop metaphor to documents as paper sheets or folders makes WIMP interfaces easy to introduce to new users. [ 1 ]

  8. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The first act is usually used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships, and the world they live in.Later in the first act, a dynamic, on-screen incident occurs, known as the inciting incident, or catalyst, that confronts the main character (the protagonist), and whose attempts to deal with this incident lead to a second and more dramatic situation, known as the ...

  9. Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    Raphael Baroni argues that narrative theory’s excess formalism is a “toolbox” for literary study. [21] Baroni accuses Todorov of confining commentary to an objective overview of narrative structure, [21] instead of analysing functions, meanings and sociohistorical contexts. He concludes that narrative theory falls short of discussing the ...