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Schema n. (pl. schemata, E. schemas) (Kantian Philos.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect.

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Etymology of 'Schema'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... style cultivates variation from the customary, by which it becomes clever, more dignified, and altogether more attractive. The turn of expression is called a Trope, and change of construction is called a Schema. The forms of these are described in technical treatises. Let us examine if any of these is omitted by Homer or whether anything else was discovered by his successors which he himself did not ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

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