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Definition of Ectypes
1. ectype [n] - See also: ectype
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ectypes
Literary usage of Ectypes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"It is only when the ideas are ectypes, as is the case when the proposition concerns
substances, that the doubt arises whether the agreement between them ..."
2. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1894)
"It is only when the ideas are ectypes, as is the case when the proposition concerns
substances, that the doubt arises whether the agreement between them ..."
3. History of Philosophy by William Turner (1903)
"1 Corresponding to the ectypes in the world of concrete existence are the
prototypes, whose focus is not a separate intelligible world, ..."
4. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Stöckl (1887)
"This prototype of the world is the Logos, created things are the ectypes of this
Logos. As the seal is impressed upon the wax and is represented in it, ..."
5. Metaphysic: In Three Books, Ontology, Cosmology, and Psychology by Hermann Lotze (1887)
"Now it is not once for all nor in a systematic order that this real world unfolds
ectypes of the ideas. In that case it would scarcely be possible to say in ..."
6. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"Ideas 13- Secondly, the complex ideas of substances are ectypes, copies too ;
but not perfect ones, ..."
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