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Princeton's WordNet
propaedeutic, propaedeuticsnoun
a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally)
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Propaedeutics is the branch of knowledge that concerns with preliminary instruction, introduction to the basic principles and methodologies of a discipline (such as art, science, or literature), and the fundamental skills needed for further learning in that field. It serves as a foundation or preparatory study for more advanced study or specialization in a particular subject.
Webster Dictionary
Propaedeuticsnoun
the preliminary learning connected with any art or science; preparatory instruction
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Propaedeutics
Propaedeutics or propedeutics is a historical term for an introductory course into a discipline: art, science, etc. Etymology: pro- + Greek: paideutikós, "pertaining to teaching". Propaedeutics may be defined as knowledge necessary for learning, but not for proficiency. In medicine, the terms "propedeutics"/"propedeutic" specifically refers to preliminary collection of data about patient by observation, palpation, temperature measurement, etc., without specialized diagnostic procedures. The 1851 Encyclopaedia Americana writes that it is: "...a term used by the Germans to indicate the knowledge which is necessary or useful for understanding or practising an art or science, or which unfolds its nature and extent, and the method of learning it. It is applied, therefore, not only to special introductions to particular branches of study, but also to auxiliary sciences, logic, philology, etc., and the encyclopaedic views of particular branches of science which facilitate an insight into the relations of the parts. Such a survey can he presented only by one who has studied a science in all its ramifications. The term propaedeutics is often, of course, merely relative : thus philology belongs to the propaedeutics of history, while it is itself the main study of a certain class of scholars. The term, however, in its common use, is generally restricted to the body of knowledge, and of rules necessary for the study of some particular science — rules which originate in the application of the general laws of science or art to a particular department. Thus we find in the catalogues of lectures to be delivered in German universities medical propaedeutics, &c., enumerated."
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The numerical value of propaedeutics in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
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The numerical value of propaedeutics in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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