schema
a diagram, plan, or scheme.
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.
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How to use schema in a sentence
In axiomatic geometry the words point, straight line, etc., stand only for empty conceptual schemata.
Sidelights on Relativity | Albert EinsteinSuch transcendental determinations of time are the schemata of the pure conceptions of the understanding.'
Kant's Theory of Knowledge | Harold Arthur PrichardThe account of the schemata of the remaining categories need not be considered.
Kant's Theory of Knowledge | Harold Arthur PrichardImages are always particular; schemata are always universal.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' | Norman Kemp SmithIf they are pure concepts of Understanding, the intuitions are called schemata.
Kant's Critique of Judgement | Immanuel Kant
British Dictionary definitions for 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 schema
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