SCHEMA Definition & Meaning

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schema

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noun

plural schemata schemas.

a diagram, plan, or scheme.
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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

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noun

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

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of schema¹

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

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of schema¹

C19: from Greek: form

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To combat this, the ERA would provide a way to get justices to side with women, that’s not connected to the current, flawed schema of judicial review.

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Chess players remember the location of pieces on the board using schema, a way of organizing new information in the brain.

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“You have this very tight, well worn schema that we are adult colleagues who are going out to talk,” she said.

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As Bohannon writes: “The ideas that human beings have about reality — what it’s made of, how it works, how we all fit into grander schemata — can change fundamentally.”

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Under the schema of motivated reasoning, even the weakest information propping up a belief becomes amplified, while strong disconfirming evidence is dismissed.

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