Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An analogue; something analogous.
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- noun Analogue.
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- noun
analogue
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Examples
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Thus, the external, extrinsic sociological fact or system of realities finds itself inscribed within the internal instrinsic experience of the film in what Sartre in a suggestive and too-little known concept in his Psychology of Imagination calls the analogon: 5 that structural nexus in our reading or view - ing experience, in our operations of decoding or aesthetic reception, which can then do double duty and stand as the substitute and the representative within the aesthetic object of a phenomenon on the outside which cannot in the very nature of things be
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Now, idea, taken in indissoluble connection with this 'analogon' of product is mind, that which knows itself, and the existence of which may be inferred, but cannot appear or become a
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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This 'analogon' of product is to be itself; but were it indeed and substantially a product, it would cease to be self.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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One key addition to Wolff that he makes in the Metaphysics, however, is the concept of the analogon rationis, the “analogue of reason.”
18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007
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The satisfaction of those mental powers summed up in the analogon rationis is a source of pleasure in its own right.
18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007
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But I should think him mistaken here, and that this is not the meaning of Aristotles [Greek: analogon].
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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He then propounds his theory that beauty is simply an analogon of moral freedom.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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It is not a semblance of the divine nature, an analogon, or verisimilitude, but the love of God himself in man: so that man is in this sense an incarnation of the divine.
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887
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He then propounds his theory that beauty is simply an analogon of moral freedom.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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Every religion has for its highest images an analogon in the spiritual condition of those who profess it.
We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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