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Praxis vs Practic - What's the difference?

praxis | practic |

As nouns the difference between praxis and practic

is that praxis is practice, praxis (opposite of theory) while practic is a person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

As an adjective practic is

(archaic) practical.

praxis

English

Noun

(praxes)
  • The practical application of any branch of learning.
  • (philosophy) The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
  • Custom or established practice.
  • An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.

    • practic

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Practical.
  • *, II.i.4.3:
    • They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […].
  • (obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].

    Derived terms

    * practical

    Related terms

    * practise

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