schemata

As Bohannon writes: “The ideas that human beings have about reality — what it’s made of, how it works, how we all fit into grander schemata — can change fundamentally.”

“It finally occurred to me to stop translating these strange disciplinary languages into technical schemata, and instead simply to learn them on their own terms,” he wrote.

Artists do in fact have some power to change or reinforce our cognitive schemata.

My uniform is of the feminist schemata ilk—black sweater, ragged jeans and boots.

The fire seemed to live, go down, or die according to its own schemata.