Very roughly, a topos is a category possessing a logical structure sufficiently rich to develop most of. From Wordnik.com. [Category Theory] Reference
Now a topos is a motif which takes the form of a literary commonplace or rhetorical set-piece: e.g., the comparison between nature and a book or between the world and the theater. From Wordnik.com. [MOTIF] Reference
So it appears that Percy Shelley developed an oppositional poetics which pitted one kind of topos against another. From Wordnik.com. [_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire] Reference
These are "topos" ( "place") inscriptions followed by a name in the possessive case, which gave official authorization to a particular salesman to use this spot. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Upper Agora Report 1] Reference
7 This topos has been a subject of well known investigations from Ernst R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Princeton 1967), 319-326, to Jacques Derrida, Of. From Wordnik.com. [Plotnitsky, Notes] Reference
For more on the history of topos theory, see Mc Larty. From Wordnik.com. [Category Theory] Reference
In a nutshell, the function of a topos can be explained as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Rhetoric] Reference
Timeus and Aristotle's adaptation in his notion of topos in On the Soul. From Wordnik.com. [Nishida Kitarô] Reference
Dystopia combined the dys, Greek word for "bad" or "negative" with topos. From Wordnik.com. [Dystopia] Reference
Thereafter this view became an often repeated topos (Kris and Kurz, 1934). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Interpreters have consequently disagreed considerably about just what a topos is. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Logic] Reference
It goes by various names: intuitionistic logic, constructive logic or topos logic. From Wordnik.com. [Our "innate" tendency to infer purpose in nature" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The topos (location), where Makedonios could have set up his stall for selling goods. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Upper Agora Report 1] Reference
The poetic topos of the stanza exists, under these terms, without material extension or. From Wordnik.com. [Club Monad] Reference
The topos of a specific “female-Jewish” collective art, has no place in her writing. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Peggy Sophie Parnass.] Reference
Sidonius's last eight books which goes far beyond the conventional humility-topos of early. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Roman Empire Revisited] Reference
(That this very question applies even more forcefully to topos theory will not detain us.). From Wordnik.com. [Category Theory] Reference
Book 4, Ch. 5, at the end of the essay on topos, to pan has a somewhat special connotation. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
The second stage, broadly speaking, is defined by the standpoint of place or topos (basho). From Wordnik.com. [Nishida Kitarô] Reference
Is sealed with gold and blood. (iv. 190-95) (The seal is a significant motif in the topos.). From Wordnik.com. [Morton, Topoi of 'Blood and Gold' in Mary and Percy Shelley] Reference
The 1970s saw the development and application of the topos concept in many different directions. From Wordnik.com. [Category Theory] Reference
Aristotle presents his “laboratory space” in the spe - cial essay on topos in Physica 4, 1-5. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
'Topological' in the title refers both to the notion of topos and to the idea of shape and space. From Wordnik.com. [_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire] Reference
Henderson reached over for a carafe almost buried under the topos and poured them both fresh coffee. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
He has recently argued that there is no topos that can thoroughly satisfy a classical mathematician. From Wordnik.com. [Category Theory] Reference
Then he placed the topos of self-awareness in the even more inclusive and concrete value-forming world. From Wordnik.com. [Nishida Kitarô] Reference
The nearest to it among earlier terms in the West are the Hebrew makom and the Greek topos (τόπος). From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
Etymology: Utopia, imaginary and ideal country in Utopia 1516 by Sir Thomas More, from Greek ou not, no + topos place. From Wordnik.com. [Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments] Reference
Heber's last note recommends that she write on the Hebraic topos "Belshazzar's Feast," as she soon does (matched by Milman in 1822). From Wordnik.com. [Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_] Reference
From this perspective, the lyrical topos of nightlife in poetry is the primary form of that which takes place, secondarily, in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Club Monad] Reference
In De caelo Aristotle adheres to Plato's distinction, but since his account is less cosmogonic than Plato's the occurrence of topos prevails. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
It is not a transcendent topos that one-sidedly determines individuals but a topos that arises with them through their creative interactions. From Wordnik.com. [Nishida Kitarô] Reference
But though the name ˜topos™ may be derived from this mnemotechnical context, Aristotle's use of topoi does not rely on the technique of places. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Rhetoric] Reference
Perhaps I owe to this static destiny the never satisfied love I harbor for travel, and the frequency with which a journey appears as a topos in many of my books. From Wordnik.com. [My House] Reference
In general usage, chora and topos have approximately the same range of meanings, but chora is used more loosely and informally, and it is less specific than topos. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
I am almost positive that whatever essay winds the contest will have every familiar topos from that sort of writing that is far too familiar from right publications. From Wordnik.com. [The IWF College Essay Contest] Reference
Because socialism is not en vogue, we had and still have no effective theoretical antidote against the ideological visions and vistas coming from capitalist topos ouranios. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Do we see all over dictatorial ghosts, not the real ones right under our noses?] Reference
It is striking that the work which is almost exclusively dedicated to the collection of topoi, the book Topics, does not even make an attempt to define the concept of topos. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Rhetoric] Reference
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