Logos
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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IN the beginning was the logos. And then there was doubt.
Logos, the experts say, comes from the Greek word legein, to collect or gather. But we would be mistaken to surmise that this ancient word has no links to rationality.
When Homer in the Iliad uses a verb with the same root as the word logos to describe the collecting of things, including weapons, coats of armor, and bread, there is an implied categorizationsomething we in later times know a
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