Answer: Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalisations, and the experiments performed in support of them
Explanation: When a particular idea, attitude or opinion is implemented and begins to prove itself to be true and applicable, it becomes applicable in such a way that it is further expanded and applied even more, then that idea, attitude or opinion becomes a standard, or some kind of standard. That standard is actually a form or a guide how to do something, think about something or have an attitude. That standard, a pattern that has proven to be accurate and applicable in a way that is almost universally accepted, is a paradigm.
This standard, as it stated in question, may also be called a framework, that is, a generalised opinion about something, but only after it has been proven in practice, that is why it is said that experiments must practically prove and support an idea, theory, standard. The paradigm can be in the philosophical or scientific discipline but also in other spheres of life, such as in business, rules in language, etc.
