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schema

[ skee-muh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural sche·ma·ta [skee, -m, uh, -t, uh, skee-, mah, -t, uh, ski-], sche·mas.

a diagram, plan, or scheme.
Synonyms: model, framework, outline
an underlying organizational pattern or structure; conceptual framework:
A schema provides the basis by which someone relates to the events they experience.
(in Kantian epistemology) a concept, similar to a universal but limited to phenomenal knowledge, by which an object of knowledge or an idea of pure reason may be apprehended.

schema

/ ˈskiːmə /

a plan, diagram, or scheme
(in the philosophy of Kant) a rule or principle that enables the understanding to apply its categories and unify experience
universal succession is the schema of causality
psychol a mental model of aspects of the world or of the self that is structured in such a way as to facilitate the processes of cognition and perception
logic an expression using metavariables that may be replaced by object language expressions to yield a well-formed formula. Thus A = A is an axiom schema for identity, representing the infinite number of axioms, x = x, y = y, z = z, etc

Origin of schema¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; from Greek schêma “form, shape, appearance”

Origin of schema¹

C19: from Greek: form

In this urban schema, family, long the basic unit of society, becomes peripheral.

Even less may a logical schema of this sort be regarded as representing a universal law of development.

In the first place, the schema is a conception which relates not to the reality apprehended but to us.

Yet, on Kant's general account of a schema, the schematizing must actually bring a manifold under the corresponding conception.

The schema is, in itself, always a mere product of the imagination.

The schema of necessity is the existence of an object in all time.

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