nomos

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This has led to eclipsing Schmitt's nomos, approaching the Attica ideals of the rule of reason, while not discarding the role of sovereignty.

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  1. In modern Greece, a nome; a nomarchy. It [Ithaca] forms an eparchy of the nomos of Cephalonia in the kingdom of Greece. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 517.
  2. In ancient Greek music, same as nome.

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  • This has led to eclipsing Schmitt's nomos, approaching the Attica ideals of the rule of reason, while not discarding the role of sovereignty. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • We also show that clustering algorithms can be used to reconstruct a topical hierarchy among tags, and suggest that these approaches may be used to address some of the weaknesses in current tagging systems. cs541 dm nomos CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Greek churches are predominately Greek Orthodox, so I asked the sailor if he'd been baptized in the church ( "Soi baptizeo in te ekklesia?") to which he replied, "nomos, nomos!"
  • Certainly, non-Jewish talk tends to utterly dislocate all Jews from their personal nomos and instead make them into an ahistorical group which has no stake anywhere and exists only as a kind of idea - the apex of power. —  feminist blogs
  • In their classic efforts to answer this question, 5th-century Greek philosophers follow Homer in pondering how culture and nature (in Greek, nomos and phusis) relate to each other as they converge in human identity. —  Claremont.org
 

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  1. from Greek νομός, a district, nome: see nome.
  2. from Greek νόμος, usage, custom, law, a musical mode or strain: see nome.
 

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