This paper is a critique of cultural paradigms. It explores the notion of a cultural paradigm and what it might actually mean in two parts: first, paradigms as linguistic structures, and second,...Show moreThis paper is a critique of cultural paradigms. It explores the notion of a cultural paradigm and what it might actually mean in two parts: first, paradigms as linguistic structures, and second, paradigms as cultural laws. Both of these are shown to be incoherent. Paradigms as linguistic structures are shown to be incoherent with support of Davidson's arguments regarding the criterion of incommensurability. In section two, paradigms as cultural laws, the meaning of 'laws' is explicated with the help of Humean Supervenience and it is shown that laws don't have any causal force. This decoupling of causal force and paradigms dismantles the notion of paradigm and shows that cultural laws supervene on the actions of people within said culture.Show less