Praxis meaning

prăksĭs
praxes
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Practical application or exercise of a branch of learning.
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(philosophy) The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
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Praxis is defined as an accepted practice or custom, or an idea translated into action, or something in reality rather than something in theory.

Fasting as a result of your Christian faith and to atone for your sins is an example of praxis.

Living the principles of communism instead of just theoretically discussing those principles and strategizing about whether they will work is an example of praxis.

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Established practice; custom.
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Practice, as distinguished from theory, of an art, science, etc.
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An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
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(now rare) A set of examples or exercises, as in grammar.
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Habitual or established practice; custom.
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Origin of praxis

  • Medieval Latin prāxis from Greek from prāssein prāg- to do

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek πρᾶξις (praksis, “action, activity, practice")

    From Wiktionary

Praxis Sentence Examples

  • Through this critical appropriation critical praxis becomes a possibility.

  • This paper will seek to conclude that the obvious answer is to use research as the vehicle for developing praxis.

  • This taking stock of the past will enable better mission praxis in the future.

  • It is here that the differences between the four schools come most into notice: the Hanifite praxis is the least rigorous, then the Shafi`ite; the Hanbalites, whose system is the strictest, have practically disappeared in the Malikites.

  • It is probable that the apparent severity of the medieval Latin Church on this subject was largely due to the real strictness of the Greek Church, which, under the patriarch Photius in 864, had taken what was virtually a new departure in its fasting praxis.

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