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Framework of reference
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schema
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world [syn: scheme ] a schematic or preliminary plan [syn: outline , scheme ] [also: schemata (pl)]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plural schemata , 1796, in Kantian philosophy ("a product of the imagination intermediary between an image and a concept "), from Greek skhema (see scheme (n.)). Meaning "diagrammatic representation" is from 1890; general sense of "hypothetical outline" ...
Usage examples of schema.
Gradus is discursively seduced in a way that makes the seeming distinction between him and Kinbote, as well as that between the baroque and the simple, the cultured and the barbarous, the homosexual and the heterosexual, and the roughly masculine and the decadently effeminized, appear to be nothing more than the product of an obsessive and pedantic imagination which insists on impressing its own absurdly reductive schema on a disorderly world that consistently eludes it.
Imperial power can no longer resolve the conflict of social forces through mediatory schemata that displace the terms of conflict.
Finally, democracy organizes the multitude according to a representational schema so that the People can be brought under the rule of the regime and the regime can be constrained to satisfy the needs of the People.
Let us quickly sketch the semiological schema: the example being a sentence, the first system is purely linguistic.
If one wishes to connect a mythical schema to a general history, to explain how it corresponds to the interests of a definite society, in short, to pass from semiology to ideology, it is obviously at the level of the third type of focusing that one must place oneself: it is the reader of myths himself who must reveal their essential function.
Thus, from the point of view of the cause or of the structure of the object, there is participation, syncretistic schemas resulting from the fusion of singular terms.
If one wishes to connect a mythical schema to a general history, to explain how it corresponds to the interests of a definite society, in short, to pass from semiology to ideology, it is obviously at the level of the third type of focusing that one must place oneself: it is the reader of myths himself who must reveal their essential function.
Design schemata for just about anything a mid-twenty-first-century postindustrial civilization could conceive of, freeze-dried copies of the Library of Congress, all sorts of things.
Now what we call a science, the schema of which must have its outline (monogramma) and the division of the whole into parts devised according to the idea, that is, a priori, and keep it perfectly distinct from everything else according to principles, cannot be produced technically according to the similarity of its various parts or the accidental use of knowledge in concreto for this or that external purpose, but architectonically only, as based on the affinity of its parts and their dependence on one supreme and internal aim through which alone the whole becomes possible.
But all that foregoing is in quotes: how did you speak the classificatory schema?
Schemata, critical path analyses, clinically plotted intersections from his side of the strategic planning.
Che parte avesse nello schema generale lo sciamano con il suo tentativo di farsi assassinare dal Jaff, Fletcher non poteva saperlo, ma l'istinto gli diceva che il suo ruolo era tutt'altro che esaurito.
The second procedure consists in the mathematical and here the geometrical construction, by means of which I add in a pure intuition, just as I may do in the empirical intuition, everything that belongs to the schema of a triangle in general and, therefore, to its concept, and thus arrive at general synthetical propositions.
Il rumore era confuso, ma ogni gruppo seguiva il proprio ritmo e il proprio schema.
Diciamo che siamo di fronte a un gruppo di uomini, che agiscono seguendo uno schema, in base a un piano preciso.