eidos

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.

IDEA GEORGE BOAS 1968

At times Plato substitutes the word eidos for “idea.”

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."

The Guardian World News 2010

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."

The Guardian World News 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.

Against Darwinism 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?

A Coast Guard that guards everyone else’s coast « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

He derived the name from the Greek terms kalos meaning "beautiful," eidos, for "form," and skopos, meaning "to look at."

A Local Life: Cozy Baker, 86; Outlook of kaleidoscope collector was transformed by beauty T. Rees Shapiro 2010

I fancy there is an essence, an eidos of the lyric, whence “each variation comes.”

Indefatiguable Romance : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

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

Evolution Sloan, Phillip 2008

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

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007