schematist

Definitions

1. 1

   One given to forming schemes

   One given to forming schemes; schemer.

   • Otherwise, if the Schematist knows any thing of the Christian Religion, he must know, that a true Christian is an enemy to Lies, Forgeries , Impostures, Occasional Conformity for a Place of Honour, or Profits, & c .
2. 2

   One who thinks about or develops formal schemata or abstract frameworks.

   • What is the scalar extreme to spontaneity? To the schematist it might seem to be inhibition: but clinically —as the manifestations described above suggest — it would seem to be a behavioral complex of compulsive and inhibitory elements.
   • Beckett's fatal Cleopatra takes possession: the schematist in him comes to the fore and instead of a living body of art we get a thin ghost called anti-art, that would like, if it could, to extinguish itself altogether.
3. 3

   Involving schemata or abstract frameworks.

   • Was Pokrovsky's view of the differences between history and sociology regarded as more "schematist" than that which was introduced following Stalin's "Observations"?
   • Such a schematist approach and methods have always proved restrictive and conducive to some dogma or other.
   • A review of linguistics illustrated the concepts transplanted into IT applications are predominantly schematist -- based on abstract formal models .

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