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- noun Plural form of
schematism .
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Examples
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The same may be said of their many schematisms, some of which have already been mentioned.
SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968
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Not only solidarity then, but also colours, which Zeno called 'the first schematisms' of matter were regarded as due to the mysterious agency of air.
Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock
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He could talk about concepts and categories and schematisms without losing his head amongst those metaphysical heights.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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Here we have the _necessity_ which is indispensable to all geometrical demonstration: it is a necessity founded in our human organ, which cannot admit or conceive a space, unless as preconforming to these original forms or schematisms.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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They must be capable of living up to expectations: education must not only teach or transmit, but also open up thought; education must make sure that thought is not locked up in rigid schematisms and automatisms, but always leaves open a horizon for new actualizations.
Eurozine articles Boyan Manchev 2010
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