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praxis

[prak-sis] / ˈpræk sɪs /
NOUN
habit
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Their qualitative work on the severed mother-daughter dyad has yielded wholly nuanced theories and praxis rooted in the unique “self-in-relation” analysis model.

From Salon • May 11, 2024

“From demure Oberlin alumna to socialist organizer, she embodied a praxis of revolutionary change that profoundly inspired W.E.B. Du Bois’s last years.”

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2022

The praxis has always been and is still being developed by the marginalized and has of necessity to be nimbler than the scholarship, which all too often serves the powerful.

From Scientific American • Feb. 3, 2021

The form of the book is this theory in praxis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2018

Another difficult word which constantly recurs in the Poetics is prattein or praxis, generally translated 'to act' or 'action'.

From Aristotle on the art of poetry by Bywater, Ingram




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