alogon

The word alogon had a double meaning, though: it also meant “not to be spoken.”

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

The word alogon had a double meaning, though: it also meant “not to be spoken.”

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

The word alogon had a double meaning, though: it also meant “not to be spoken.”

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

We are beyond any visualization and vision, conception, possibility of representation and so forth, whether of order or of chaos, except insofar as the latter is used to designate the irreducibly inaccessible and thus, as I said, is in accordance with the Greek alogon (outside logos) and arreton (incomprehensible).

Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001

Disorder ultimately underlies order, although "disorder," in this case, is closer to the Greek arreton or alogon, as that which is incomprehensible or is incommensurable with understanding, rather than (only) relating to a (say, spatial) chaotic configuration.

Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001

The Pythagoreans called such lengths alogon, “not a ratio,” which we today translate as “irrational.”

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

The Pythagoreans called such lengths alogon, “not a ratio,” which we today translate as “irrational.”

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

The Pythagoreans called such lengths alogon, “not a ratio,” which we today translate as “irrational.”

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

Is not this not only agraphon but also alogon, not only unscriptural, but also unreasonable, yea, absurd and ludicrous?

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

So we set out with great pomp and circumstance, each on his beast -- _alogon_, the Unreasonable Thing, is the word for horse -- while a fifth, with two drivers, carried our goods.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various