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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHEME (See also:Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, See also:form, from the See also:root See also:axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)  , in the most See also:general and See also:common sense, a See also:plan or See also:design, especially of See also:action with some definite purpose, often and more particularly in the derivatives " to See also:scheme," " schemer," " scheming," with a hostile or unfavourable notion of a See also:plot or surreptitious plan, or of a selfish project or enterprise . The See also:original meaning, derived from the Med . See also:Lat. See also:translation figure, of oXiiµa, is that of a See also:diagram or figure to illustrate a mathematical proposition and the like, a See also:map or plan, &c., thus used of an See also:analysis, a See also:tabular statement; an See also:epitome or synopsis, a table or See also:system of See also:classification . In Kantian See also:philosophy, " Schema " is used of " the product of the exercise of the transcendental See also:imagination in giving generality to sense and particularity to thought," and " schematism of the theory, in the Kantian analysis of knowledge, of the use of the transcendental imagination as mediating between sense and understanding " (See also:Baldwin, See also:Dictionary of Philosophy and See also:Psychology, 1902, vol. ii.) .

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