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Architectonic   Listen
noun
Architectonic  n.  
1.
The science of architecture.
2.
The act of arranging knowledge into a system.





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"Architectonic" Quotes from Famous Books



... doggerel verses, which he had put together in memoriam [technicam] of the way in which A E I O are used in logic: he added U, Y, for the addition of meet, etc., to the system. I took the liberty of concocting some counter-doggerel, just to show that a mathematician may have architectonic power ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... universe is alone fully adequate to that idea. Setting aside the exaggerations of expression in the writings of this philosopher, the mental power exhibited in this ascent from the ectypal mode of regarding the physical world to the architectonic connection thereof according to ends, that is, ideas, is an effort which deserves imitation and claims respect. But as regards the principles of ethics, of legislation, and of religion, spheres in which ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant


Words linked to "Architectonic" :   architectonics, tectonic


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