Definitions

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  • noun Plural form of logo.
  • noun philosophy In Presocratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos. In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos
  • noun philosophy Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument.
  • noun philosophy In Aristotelian philosophy, the appeal to reason.
  • noun grammar A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument
  • noun Judaism The word of God, which itself has creative power; a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom
  • noun Christianity The creative Second Person of the Trinity, which simultaneously is Himself God and also with God the Father.
  • noun sciences 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.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, "speech, oration, discourse, quote, story, study, ratio, word, calculation, reason").

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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.

    THE NAMES OF JESUS RUBEL SHELLY 1999

  • 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.

    THE NAMES OF JESUS RUBEL SHELLY 1999

  • There is disagreement about exactly what Heraclitus meant by using the term logos, but it is clear from

    Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007

  • 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 NAMES OF JESUS RUBEL SHELLY 1999

  • 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 NAMES OF JESUS RUBEL SHELLY 1999

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] CirceCook 2010

  • Similarly, such a Gentile and a Jew would have noticed a similarity between Philo's use of the term logos, and John's.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • 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".

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • 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.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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  • Hiesos Kristos, magician of the beautiful, the Logos who suffers in us at every moment.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 9

    January 5, 2007

  • 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.

    August 15, 2008

  • I am so flattered....

    August 15, 2008

  • 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?

    August 15, 2008

  • 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.

    August 15, 2008

  • Hey super-logos, how 'bout: 'Bob Logos the Third' :)

    Bob Log III

    February 9, 2011