Mathesis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /məˈθiːsɪs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mathesis is a noun meaning (now rare) Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.
Meaning
(now rare) Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.
More Meanings
- The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.)
Example Sentences
1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN I’m using 'mathesis' — a universal science of measurement and order […]
Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides.
Word Forms
- matheses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mathematicality, mathematese, math, maths, mathematization, mathematicization.
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