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( Logos)
Logos (pronounced /'lo??g?s/) (Greek ?????, logos) is an important term in philosophy, analytical psychology, rhetoric and religion. It derives from the verb ???? lego to count, tell, say, or speak.[1] The primary meaning of logos is something said; by implication a subject, topic of discourse, or reasoning. Secondary meanings such as logic, reasoning, etc. derive from the fact that if one is capable of ???e?? (infinitive) i.e. speech, then intelligence and reason are assumed. Its semantic field extends beyond "word" to notions such as "thought, speech, account, meaning, reason, proportion, principle, standard", or "logic". In English, the word is the root of "logic," and of the "-ology" suffix (e.g., geology).[2] Psychologist Carl Jung used the term for the masculine principle of rationality. A form of government where 'words' are the most important thing is called logocracy. In ordinary, non-technical Greek, logos had two overlapping meanings. One meaning referred to an instance of speaking "sentence, saying, oration"; the other meaning was the antithesis of ergon ("action" or "work"), which was commonplace. Despite the conventional translation as "word", it is not used for a word in the grammatical sense; instead, the term lexis is used. However, both logos and lexis derive from the same verb ????. It also means the inward intention underlying the speech act "hypothesis, thought, grounds for belief or action." [3]
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