Eidos

Word EIDOS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈaɪdɒs/

Definitions and meanings of "Eidos"

What do we mean by eidos?

Form; essence; type; species.

Interesting but extinct word of Greek philosophical origin. Closest meaning now is idea, form, or better yet "ideal form". It's the name of a major game software company too. They don't get to own the word though, because its too cool even for them, but they may own the urban version. Urban Dictionary

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The word "eidos" in example sentences

But what is seen is a shape or form, and Plato's pupil, Aristotle, preferred the term eidos, probably because he could not accept his master's theory of ideas. ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

At times Plato substitutes the word eidos for “idea.” ❋ GEORGE BOAS (1968)

Even if we turn from a Latin derivative to Greek - an intellectual if desperate act in itself - we end up back whence we fled, with "eidos": "The distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or social group." ❋ Unknown (2010)

As already understood by Delbruck (1971), Aristotle's concept of the eidos, in the context of ontogenetic development, is in some respects remarkably similar to the modern concept of the genetic program. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Is the hidden eidos in the American use of “force”, as in “Armed Forces” (military) or “on the force” (member of the police) more subversive than it might seem on the surface? ❋ Unknown (2008)

He derived the name from the Greek terms kalos meaning "beautiful," eidos, for "form," and skopos, meaning "to look at." ❋ T. Rees Shapiro (2010)

I fancy there is an essence, an eidos of the lyric, whence “each variation comes.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

The metaphysical requirement that the soul-as-form (eidos) be permanent and enduring through the process of the generation of ❋ Sloan, Phillip (2008)

In that case, the carpenter looks to the form (eidos) of shuttle, that which is shuttle (ho estin kerkis). ❋ Parry, Richard (2007)

And, of course, one immediately notices the similarity with the Platonic eidos, idea. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Kant, this universal idea or law is held to be independent of space and time, such a mataion eidos becomes almost unmeaning. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What biologists have long called morphé (in apparent analogy to what, in the humanities, commonly goes under the title of "form" -- Grk. eidos) should be understood as encryptions of core-information that is distinguished by its capacity for self-replication. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Yet, perhaps, not so; but the name may have been originally written with a double l and not with an s, meaning that the God knew many things (Polla eidos). ❋ Plato (1975)

In Greek there are two words, eidos and idea, with the same root, which in most translations are rendered indifferently by "form." ❋ Bloom, Allan (1970)

For the relatively infrequent use of idea, I decided merely to transliterate the Greek and reserved "form" for eidos. ❋ Bloom, Allan (1970)

He used morphē for form in various senses, e.g., shape or figure, but primarily as a synonym for his particular concept of eidos, entelechia. ❋ W. TATARKIEWICZ (1968)

From the outset the Latin forma re - placed two Greek words: morphē and eidos; the first applied primarily to visible forms, the second to con - ceptual forms. ❋ W. TATARKIEWICZ (1968)

This was so self-evident that Aristotle never bothers to give a definition of eidos, mentioned in the first sentence of the Poetics. ❋ E. N. TIGERSTEDT (1968)

[98] Hos hēdu kalos hotan echei noun sōphrona prōton men eidos axion turannidos. — ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

[Eidos] makes [rad] [computer] games, dude. ❋ Heraclitus Of Austin (2009)

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