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Translation of an idea into action
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praxis
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Praxis is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in Italy in July 1968 and released on the Greek Praxis label as a double LP. It features the first solo piano performance released by Taylor but has yet to be released on CD.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Medieval Latin praxis "practice, exercise, action" (mid-13c., opposite of theory ), from Greek praxis "practice, action, doing," from stem of prassein , prattein "to do, to act" (see practical ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The practical application of any branch of learning. 2 (context philosophy English) The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either. 3 custom or established practice. 4 An example or form of exercise, or a collection of ...
Usage examples of praxis.
It had created a system by which the Praxis could be maintained after its death and hold the empire stable.
Because I am who I am,at this perfect moment in time, I am privileged to havean honorable death, one that gives both myself and the Praxis meaning.
After the lingering death of the planet Dandaphis, the prohibitions against technology embodied within the Praxis were never again subjected to such a radical challenge.
Other elements of the Praxis were devoted to social organization, with every sentient being in the empire given a place in a well-defined hierarchy, one clan ranked below the next, with the Peers over all.
And now, in the Year 12,481 of the Peace of the Praxis, only one remained.
Earth, she learned, who before the arrival of the Shaa had striven to bring into being something like the Praxis, which of course was the most perfect form of government possible.
Even though the Praxis was supposed to be eternal and unvarying, in practice the ground of interpretation tended to shift uneasily over time, and Sula had saved studying Praxis theory till last in hopes that her answers would reflect the current official line.
It made no sense that the most obedient and orthodox species under the Praxis would suddenly turn rogue.
Zanshaa was the capital of the empire, the place where the Great Masters rested, where the Convocation sat and where the Praxis had been proclaimed.
Instead, Elkizer planned an elaborate dinner for all the senior commanders, captains, and lieutenants, to celebrate the anniversary of the First Proclamation of the Praxis on Sandama.
The Praxis was first apprehended only by the Shaa, who in their wisdom determined to impose their vision of perfection upon all existence, first upon my own species and then others.
In place of the ideal, in which the species first exposed to the Praxis imposed its will on all others, we now have an equivalence among the species speaking in Convocation.
The Convocation immediately passed on a voice vote a measure outlawing the Committee for the Salvation of the Praxis, whoever and wherever they might be.
A little information about what Akzad had said about the Committee for the Salvation of the Praxis had reached him, and he gathered that large numbers of Naxids were involved.
Hone-bar are desperate to remain loyal to the Praxis, but fear the enemy.