Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An analogue; something analogous.

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  • noun Analogue.

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  • noun analogue

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek ἀνάλογος (analogos).

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • He then propounds his theory that beauty is simply an analogon of moral freedom.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • 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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