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The blueprint your brain hides behind every 'obviously' you've ever said.
means A mental framework or structured pattern that organizes how you interpret information and experience.
from From Greek 'schēma' meaning form, shape, or figure — related to the verb 'echein,' to have or hold. The word moved through Latin into English scholarly use, first in geometry and rhetoric for a figure or outline, before psychology (notably Piaget's work on cognitive development) borrowed it in the 20th century to describe the mental structures we use to organize knowledge.
- origin
- Greek for shape, borrowed by psychology then databases
- piaget's use
- kids build schemas, then cry when reality breaks them
- database sense
- the rulebook a database refuses to live without
- hidden cost
- once formed, schemas filter out contradicting evidence