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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. In Presocratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos. In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos
- n. Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument.
- n. In Aristotelian philosophy, the appeal to reason.
- n. A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument
- n. The word of God, which itself has creative power; a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom
- n. The creative Second Person of the Trinity, which simultaneously is Himself God and also with God the Father.
- n. Graphic representations of an aligned set of sequences, such as DNA binding sites or protein sequences. Called logos because a given graphical representation aggregates disparate elements, much as does an artistic corporate logo.
- n. Plural form of logo.
Etymologies
- Greek; see leg- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Philo used the term logos more than thirteen hundred times in his writings that are still available for us.5 The Logos is the instrument of mediation for a transcendent God who—following the Greek philosophers—was pure spirit being who was unable to have contact with the physical universe he had created.”
“There is disagreement about exactly what Heraclitus meant by using the term logos, but it is clear from”
“It appears that he took the concepts of speech, ratio, and intelligence that were all contained in the word logos and personified them in his use of Logos as a technical term.”
“The term logos, by the time of John, had had a long philosophical history, and it is to that history and to Greek philosophy that we should turn in order to understand it, and to put it into its proper context.”
“Similarly, such a Gentile and a Jew would have noticed a similarity between Philo's use of the term logos, and John's.”
“Philo, Ronald Williamson tells us, used the term logos "very frequently", but "partly because the ideas it was used to express are difficult and complex ones, and partly because Philo's own thought is also profound and complex, it is difficult to give a clear and coherent statement of Philo's thought in this area".”
“I just realized that I am not being as helpful as I could: my suggestion is merely that the term logos should be translated consistently throughout the verse and that its meaning is best captured by a word or phrase that speaks to the creative gesture that God made in the Beginning.”
“That said, John's use of the term logos would certainly have been familiar to his Greek-speaking audience.”
“The scholar Faust, meditating in his cell, translates the first line of the Gospel According to John, “In the beginning was the word logos”; then, dissatisfied with the description he says “the feeling,” which also does not quite do; finally and definitively he chooses to reinterpret it as “the deed.””
“Behind our English term word lies the Greek word logos.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘logos’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 322 more...
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Imbible Code ✞
Christian word branding; common English word-associatives connected to Bible terminology or scripture.
I also have a general Bible-word list.god, father, son, trinity, sacrament, knowledge, serpent, flood, evil, good, spirit, revelation and 118 more...
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Rhetoric: The Harlot of the Arts
Words to do with rhetoric--study of, history of, practice of, theory of
rhetoric, paralepsis, invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery, copia, consubstantiation, trope, colon, tricolon and 56 more...
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Foreign Words
The word 'word' in other languages.
mot, woord, logos, palabra, Wort, слово, parola, 詞, kelime, zabda, slovo, ord and 9 more...
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Interesting words
A list of philosophically oriented terms/words that are common vocabulary for philosophers, or spark interesting discussion and thought.
formalisation, phenomenological, experiential, a-priori, aporia, logos, epoche, metaphysics, Other, Same, realism, idealism and 3 more...
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communication words
concise, ethos, cohesive, redundant, circumlocution, logos, pathos, rhetoric, articulate, verbose, taciturn, translate and 4 more...
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Terms for AP Lit
This list is designed to be a reference for my AP Lit. students
symbolism, archetype, polysyndeton, ellipsis, anaphora, diction, asyndeton, chiasmus, syntax, oxymoron, logos, fallacy and 28 more...
Ed_Jogg Hey super-logos, how 'bout: 'Bob Logos the Third' :)
Bob Log III
Feb 9, 2011
milosrdenstvi As I said, the primary meaning is 'word', not 'God'; I would say rather both you and God are associated with the same concept, rather than you being associated with God. If it bothers you that much, though, there's a secondary Greek word also meaning 'word', which is rhema. Or you could pluralise and use logoi, or peri log�?n 'concerning words', or something similar. Aug 15, 2008
super-logos I must change my name. I am not divine. I think it is improper to be associated with the second person in God. Will be considering a new name for myself here on wordie.org. Any ideas from my fellow wordies? What should I re-name myself?
Aug 15, 2008
super-logos I am so flattered....
Aug 15, 2008
milosrdenstvi A spectacular word of Greek, meaning alternately words, spoken speech, written letters, numerical accounts, record-keeping, debate, discussion, speaking, logic, histories, arguments, several dozen different things, and, of course, the Christian sense as well, which superseded most of the classical sense. It covers five columns in the Comprehensive Liddell & Scott Lexicon of the Greek Language, not even beginning to mention all the subsidiary forms in which it combines with other words to make new concepts. Aug 15, 2008
brtom Hiesos Kristos, magician of the beautiful, the Logos who suffers in us at every moment.
Joyce, Ulysses, 9 Jan 5, 2007