schematism
/ˈskiːmətɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun]
The arrangement or presentation of something according to a scheme or schema: one must try to locate the precise questions with which to replace Marx’s schematism...
- Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity.
- The Apollonian tendency now appears disguised as logical schematism.
- The peculiar nature of Keynes's schematism is that it is constructed to tame ‘the extreme complexity of the actual course of events’.
Origin
Early 17th century: from modern Latin schematismus, from Greek skhēmatismos 'assumption of a certain form', from skhēma, skhēmat- 'form'.
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