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praxis

[ US /ˈpɹæksɪs/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈæksɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. translating an idea into action
    differences between theory and praxis of communism
    a hard theory to put into practice

How To Use praxis In A Sentence

  • There is nothing like it in the rest of the world: a single site that covers theory, praxis and practice in the discipline.
  • Otpor would become the textbook example of Sharp's theories translated into praxis.
  • The transition in utopian studies is detailed in the essay (“Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions”) introducing this Praxis volume. Joanna Baillie’s Ecotopian Comedies
  • Of holding Obama in dubious regard, given his facile demonizing tactics and his Alinskyite praxis and wholesale mendacity in general: The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals
  • Praxis: Practice, especially of an art, science, or technical occupation, opposite to theory.
  • zoopraxiscope" - what today would be called a movie projector. The Guardian World News
  • Although you're not a Romanticist, you are heavily involved in what you have called a praxis or practice of your own. Blake & Virtuality: An Exchange
  • It prompted that deep look at the so called Death-gene (the gene postulated by natural science as a hygienic purification agent, against cancer and so forth; As a stratagem to let life reach the point where it would no longer be necessary, like the pretty Jacobian praxis lived out by Robespierre, if we may risk confusion between mode and content of exposition, but clear up the problems yourselves). The Pulse-Soldier
  • It's the same mentality that chose to render Freud's Besetzung by "cathexis," Fehlleistung by "parapraxis," and Ich by "ego. Languagehat.com: SUBLATE.
  • Ethics is the aesthetics of social interaction, and aesthetics is the theorisation of the praxis of harmony. The Stain of Sin
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