ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY
- 1580s, Logos, "the divine Word, second person of the Christian Trinity," from Gk. logos "word, speech, discourse," also "reason," from PIE root *leg- "to collect" (with derivatives meaning "to speak," on notion of "to pick out words;" see lecture (n.)); used by Neo-Platonists in various metaphysical and theological senses and picked up by New Testament writers. Other English formations from logos include logolatry "worship of words, unreasonable regard for words or verbal truth" (1810 in Coleridge); logomania (1870); logophobia (1923).
WIKIPEDIA
Logos ( /ˈloʊɡɒs/,
UK
/ˈlɒɡɒs/,
or US
/ˈloʊɡoʊs/;
Greek:
λόγος,
from λέγω lego "I say") is an important term in
philosophy,
psychology,
rhetoric, and
religion.
Originally a word meaning "a ground", "a plea",
"an opinion", "an expectation", "word,"
"speech," "account," "reason,"[1][2]
it became a technical term in philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus
(ca. 535–475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order and
knowledge.[3]
Ancient
philosophers used the term in different ways. The sophists
used the term to mean discourse,
and Aristotle
applied the term to refer to "reasoned discourse"[4]
or "the argument" in the field of rhetoric.[5]
The Stoic
philosophers identified the term with the divine
animating principle pervading the Universe.
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