Antonyms for schema


Grammar : Noun
Spell : skee-muh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈski mə


Definition of schema

Origin :
  • plural schemata, 1796, in Kantian philosophy ("a product of the imagination intermediary between an image and a concept"), from Greek skhema (see scheme (n.)). Meaning "diagrammatic representation" is from 1890; general sense of "hypothetical outline" is by 1939.
  • noun design
Example sentences :
  • The schema is, in itself, always a mere product of the imagination.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • The schema of necessity is the existence of an object in all time.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • Number is strictly not the schema of quantity as such, but of totality.
  • Extract from : « A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' » by Norman Kemp Smith
  • Now we must assume that the schema of quantity is really what Kant says it is, viz.
  • Extract from : « Kant's Theory of Knowledge » by Harold Arthur Prichard
  • The turn of expression is called a Trope, and change of construction is called a Schema.
  • Extract from : « Essays and Miscellanies » by Plutarch
  • These do not proceed according to the schema of the ordinary play of accident.
  • Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
  • The schema of cause and of the causality of a thing is the real which, when posited, is always followed by something else.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • Hence the schema is properly only the phenomenon, or the sensuous conception of an object in harmony with the category.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • The psychological idea is, therefore, meaningless and inapplicable, except as the schema of a regulative conception.
  • Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
  • That concept adheres to the schema of those who affirm the universe to be made: Naturalism excludes it.
  • Extract from : « Rationalism » by John Mackinnon Robertson

Synonyms for schema

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