mathesis — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.

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   • Archaic
   • Countable
   • Uncountable

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   Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides.

2. The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.)

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

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   I’m using 'mathesis' — a universal science of measurement and order […]