ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. 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.

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Related dictionary entries include mathematicality, mathematese, math, maths, mathematization, mathematicization.

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