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[prak-sis]

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noun, plural prax·is·es, prax·es

[prak-seez] .

practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.

convention, habit, or custom.

a set of examples for practice.

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Origin:
1575–85; < Medieval Latin < Greek prâxis deed, act, action, equivalent to prāk-, base of prā́ssein to do, fare + -sis -sis

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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The epistemology of praxis recapitulates the fantasy of linguistic transparency.

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praxis (ˈpræksɪs)

—n , pl praxises, praxes
1.	the practice and practical side of a profession or field of study, as opposed to the theory
2.	a practical exercise
3.	accepted practice or custom

[C16: via Medieval Latin from Greek: deed, action, from prassein to do]

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praxis

1581, from M.L. praxis "practice, action" (c.1255, opposite of theory), from Gk. praxis "practice, action, doing," from stem of prassein "to do, to act."

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"We are all familiar with the Aristotelian argument about the relation of poetry to action. Action, or praxis, is the world of events; and history, in the broadest sense, may be called a verbal imitation of action, or events put in the forms of words. The historian imitates action directly; he makes specific statements about what happened, and is judged by the truth of what he says. What really happened is the external model of his pattern of words, and he is judged by the adequacy with which his words reproduce that model. The poet, in dramas and epics at least, also imitates actions in words, like the historian. But the poet makes no specific statements of fact, and hence is not judged by the truth or falsehood of what he says. The poet has no external model for his imitation, and is judged by the integrity or consistency of his verbal structure. The reason is that he imitates the universal, not the particular; he is concerned not with what happened but with what happens."

-Northrop Frye

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