archetype
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Instead he views the type as what he calls the archetype of the kind, defined as something that models all the tokens of a kind with respect to projectible questions but not something that admits of answers to individuating questions.
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- noun An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' . . . 'Dracula' . . . 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' . . . the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories” (New York Times).
- noun An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.
- noun In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from the past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious.
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- As the word archetype was borrowed from old metaphysical ideas dating back to the time of Plato, he took care to state that what he meant by it was no more than a form embodying all that could be affirmed equally respecting every single kind of cephalous mollusc, and by no means an âideaâ upon which it could be supposed that animal forms had been modelled. — Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
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Instead he views the type as what he calls the archetype of the kind, defined as something that models all the tokens of a kind with respect to projectible questions but not something that admits of answers to individuating questions.
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This archetype was already in place on the day of Ashura - which fell this year on 7 January - when Shi'ites everywhere commemorate the martyrdom of Hussein, the Prophet's grandson, killed by an overwhelming military force at Kerbala.
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In the science of symbolism, the archetype is the thing adopted as a symbol, whence the symbolic idea is derived.
— The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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- Latin archetypum, from Greek arkhetupon, from neuter of arkhetupos, original : arkhe-, arkhi-, archi- + tupos, model, stamp.
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/ (ärˈkĭ-tīpˌ)/
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