gr. schéma ou skhêma (tó): aparência, forma, figura. Em lógica: designa as diferentes figuras de silogismos (Aristóteles, Anal. Pr., 1,23-24).
Form (eidos), shape (morphê) and figure (skhêma), according to Proclus, are distinguished by degree of universality. The eidos is most universal and, at its pinnacle in the third intelligible monad, exists prior to shape. As it is projected into the lower spheres by the light of Phanes, it becomes shapen. And when it becomes visible, it is considered a figure. At in Tim. 3,74,23-4, for example, Proclus describes figure as the ‘revealed image’ of the form and calls it the shape of shape.