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Summary Paradigmatology as a science of structures of reasoning which vary from culture to culture, from profession to profession, and sometimes from individual to individual is outlined, and communication difficulties between paradigms are discussed. Three paradigms are used as examples: (a) hierarchical, unilateral, homogenistic, universalistic, categorical, classificational, deductive, rank‐ordering, competitive paradigm with predetermined universe; (b) individualistic, isolationists, random, nominalistic, atomistic, statistical, probabilistic, egocentric paradigm with thermodynamically and informationally decaying universe; (c) mutualistic, reciprocally interactive, heterogeneity‐creating, network‐structured, relational, contextual, complementary, symbiotic paradigm with self‐generating and self‐organizing universe based on mutual causality and post‐Shannon information theory. Paradigmatologie et son Application à la Communication entre des Domaines de Spécialisation différents, entre des Professions et entre des Cultures

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In the future the concept of equal opportunity and fair employment should be extended, not only to ethnic and gender equality, but also to equal opportunity for those holding different theories, methods and epistemologies. The present tendency for conceptual inbreeding among academics is not only counterproductive and counterevolutionary, but also contrary to human rights.