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schema

[skee-muh] / ˈski mə /


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“If I can just point over in that direction, and we know what that direction is, and what's there, and what that means, then we have a common schema,” he says.

From Scientific American

“It finally occurred to me to stop translating these strange disciplinary languages into technical schemata, and instead simply to learn them on their own terms,” he wrote.

From Washington Post

So he was familiar with Dante’s complex metaphysical schema.

From Washington Post

His work is in the tradition of architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, whose design for D.C.’s Freedom Plaza placed a map of L’Enfant Plan amid streets drawn by that schema.

From Washington Post

“Saw III” used a similar narrative schema, and the method deflated the ratcheting horror in that film too.

From Los Angeles Times