Literary notes about Schema (AI summary)
The term "schema" appears in literature with a remarkable diversity of meanings, ranging from a visual or diagrammatic representation to an abstract, conceptual framework. In philosophical texts, it is notably employed as an imaginative construct that mediates between sensory experience and conceptual thought—a usage famously articulated by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. In other contexts, writers adopt the term to indicate a detailed plan or blueprint as seen in descriptions of anatomical dissections [9][10] and organizational settings [11][12]. Moreover, "schema" can serve as a logical or structural guide, providing a systematic outline for arguments or procedures across various disciplines [13][14].
- The psychological idea is, therefore, meaningless and inapplicable, except as the schema of a regulative conception.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Now this representation of a general procedure of the imagination to present its image to a conception, I call the schema of this conception.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The schema is, in itself, always a mere product of the imagination.
— 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.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The schema of necessity is the existence of an object in all time.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The schema of reality is existence in a determined time.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Such a representation is the transcendental schema.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - "An object of experience or an image of it always falls short of the empirical conception to a far greater degree than does the schema."
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard - 60.—Schema illustrating the introduction of the bronchoscope through the glottis, recumbent patient.
— from Bronchoscopy and EsophagoscopyA Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson - 1, horizontal cut through embryo; Fig. 2, vertical cut; schema of indifferent stage.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey - This question therefore must necessarily be brought before them, before the eleventh chapter of the Schema de Ecclesiâ can be taken in hand.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger - Already a new demand has been made upon the Bishops, to adopt the Schema the Pope had intrusted the preparation of to the Jesuits.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger - Therefore, as my exposition has led me to it, though it is very easily understood, I will illustrate it in the following table by means of a schema.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - Schumpeter's schema, though meeting criticism on other scores, does meet this logical test, but Davenport's does not appear to do so.
— from The Value of Money by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
