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A school of thought is a collection or group of people who share common characteristics of opinion
Opinion

An opinion is a belief that may or may not be backed up with evidence, but which cannot be proved with that evidence. An opinion is normally a subjective statement and may be the result of an emotion or an interpretation of facts; people may draw opposing opinions from the same facts....
 or outlook of a philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
, discipline
List of academic disciplines

An academia discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge which is teaching and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned society and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong....
, belief
Belief

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true....
, social movement
Social movement

Social movements are a type of Group action . They are large wiktionary:informal groupings of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific politics or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change....
, cultural movement
Cultural movement

A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies....
, or art movement
Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement more or less strictly so restricted ....
.

Schools are often characterized by their currency, and thus classified into "new" and "old" schools. This dichotomy is often a component of paradigm shift
Paradigm shift

Paradigm shift is the term first used by Thomas Samuel Kuhn in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science....
. However, it is rarely the case that there are only two schools in any given field.

Schools are often named after their founders such as the "Rinzai school
Rinzai school

The Rinzai school is one of the three Japanese :Category:Zen sects. Rinzai is the Japanese line of the China Linji school, which was founded during the Tang Dynasty by Linji ....
" of Zen
Zen

Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism, referred to in Chinese as Ch?n. Ch?n is itself derived from the Sanskrit Dhyana, which means "meditation" ....
 named after Linji
Linji

L?nj? Y?xu?n was the founder of the Rinzai school of Ch?n Buddhism during Tang Dynasty China. Linji was born into a family named Xing in Caozhou , which he left at a young age to study Buddhism in many places....
 and the Asharite school of early Muslim philosophy named after Abu l'Hasan al-Ashari.






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A school of thought is a collection or group of people who share common characteristics of opinion
Opinion

An opinion is a belief that may or may not be backed up with evidence, but which cannot be proved with that evidence. An opinion is normally a subjective statement and may be the result of an emotion or an interpretation of facts; people may draw opposing opinions from the same facts....
 or outlook of a philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
, discipline
List of academic disciplines

An academia discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge which is teaching and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned society and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong....
, belief
Belief

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true....
, social movement
Social movement

Social movements are a type of Group action . They are large wiktionary:informal groupings of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific politics or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change....
, cultural movement
Cultural movement

A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies....
, or art movement
Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement more or less strictly so restricted ....
.

Schools are often characterized by their currency, and thus classified into "new" and "old" schools. This dichotomy is often a component of paradigm shift
Paradigm shift

Paradigm shift is the term first used by Thomas Samuel Kuhn in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science....
. However, it is rarely the case that there are only two schools in any given field.

Schools are often named after their founders such as the "Rinzai school
Rinzai school

The Rinzai school is one of the three Japanese :Category:Zen sects. Rinzai is the Japanese line of the China Linji school, which was founded during the Tang Dynasty by Linji ....
" of Zen
Zen

Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism, referred to in Chinese as Ch?n. Ch?n is itself derived from the Sanskrit Dhyana, which means "meditation" ....
 named after Linji
Linji

L?nj? Y?xu?n was the founder of the Rinzai school of Ch?n Buddhism during Tang Dynasty China. Linji was born into a family named Xing in Caozhou , which he left at a young age to study Buddhism in many places....
 and the Asharite school of early Muslim philosophy named after Abu l'Hasan al-Ashari. They are often also named after their places of origin, such as the Ionian school
Ionian School

The Ionian school, a type of Greek philosophy centred in Miletus, Ionia in the 6th and 5th centuries Anno Domini, is something of a misnomer. Although Ionia was a centre of Western philosophy, the scholars it produced, including Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Diogenes Apolloniates, Archelaus , Hippo , and Thales, had such d...
 of philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
 that originated in Ionia
Ionia

Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest Izmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Hellenes settlements....
 and the Chicago school
Chicago school (architecture)

Architecture of Chicago is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. The style is also known as Commercial style....
 of architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 that originated in Chicago, Illinois and the Prague School of linguistics, named after a linguistic circle found in Prague.

See also

  • Mindset
    Mindset

    A mindset, in decision theory and systems theory, refers to a set of assumptions, methods or notations held by one or more people or groups of people which is so established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviours, choices, or tools....
  • History of painting
    History of painting

    The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures, that represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from Antiquity....