Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, an embassy sent on a mission of state associated with religion, such as an appeal to an oracle.
- noun Philosophic speculation: used by Ruskin to express the higher moral appreciation of beauty, as distinguished from
æsthesis , which stands for the sensual appreciation. See the extract.
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Truth is first of all a thing of seeing, of understanding, of "theoria," as it is called by the Greek tradition.
Archive 2008-01-20 papabear 2008
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The word theory comes from the Greek theoria (θεωρία), apparently first coming into its more modern use in the works of Plato, where theoria meant “contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at”.
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Within Greek philosophy, theoria was used to mean contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action – this is very similar to the non-technical definitions we see today. 1610 saw the first recorded use of theory to mean “principles or methods of a science or art (rather than its practice)”, while in 1630, it was upped all the way to “an explanation based on observation and reasoning”.
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The word theory comes from the Greek theoria (θεωρία), apparently first coming into its more modern use in the works of Plato, where theoria meant “contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at”.
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Within Greek philosophy, theoria was used to mean contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action – this is very similar to the non-technical definitions we see today. 1610 saw the first recorded use of theory to mean “principles or methods of a science or art (rather than its practice)”, while in 1630, it was upped all the way to “an explanation based on observation and reasoning”.
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Within Greek philosophy, theoria was used to mean contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action – this is very similar to the non-technical definitions we see today. 1610 saw the first recorded use of theory to mean “principles or methods of a science or art (rather than its practice)”, while in 1630, it was upped all the way to “an explanation based on observation and reasoning”.
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The word theory comes from the Greek theoria (θεωρία), apparently first coming into its more modern use in the works of Plato, where theoria meant “contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at”.
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Such an incarnation of spirit in matter remains a delusion that both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia sought to promulgate as the demonic parody of what in theoria, as distinct from praxis, Jung's psychology had affirmed.
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Likewise, according to Lossky, Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, 202, praxis and theoria — regarded also as action and contemplation — are distinct yet inseparable in Christian wisdom. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The fundamental meaning of the Greek word ‘theoria’ actually has to do with seeing.
The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf William Harryman 2009
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