schematize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of schematize
First recorded in 1640–50, schematize is from the Greek word schēmatízein to form. See scheme, -ize
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"These interactions can be schematized with simple rules, but the results of their collective action are sometimes really unpredictable."
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2023
When arguments have structure, they rely on a form that captures a specific manner of reasoning, such that the reasoning can be schematized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The Lego bricks the kids use in their projects are all schematized along these criteria.
From Forbes ● Oct. 9, 2012
In Iceberg, 1984, which depicts a dreadful shard of whiteness on an equally dreadful blackness, his cult of the isolated fragment serves a schematized vision of landscape -- obstinate, grand and pessimistic.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He presents a schematized picture of reality which, like an engineer's diagram, leaves out the cloying details of the object it is supposed to represent.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas
Whenever Moers stops schematizing long enough to let her consider able critical acumen focus on specific works, she produces fresh, provocative insights into the workings of particular female imaginations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Yet, on Kant's general account of a schema, the schematizing must actually bring a manifold under the corresponding conception.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur
Again, the process of schematizing, although introduced simply as a process by which an individual is to be subsumed indirectly under a conception, is assumed in the passage quoted to be a process of synthesis.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur
In the third place, the schema presupposes the corresponding conception and the process of schematizing directly brings the manifold of perception under the conception.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur
Pending these futile negotiations Schiller worked with great zest upon 'Demetrius ',—reading, excerpting, examining maps and pictures, schematizing, balancing possibilities, and so forth.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin
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