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topos - What does it mean?

Definition of 'topos'

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
  • * 2003 , , Flesh in the Age of Reason , Penguin (2004), page 239,
  • The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
  • (mathematics) A certain mathematical structure found in category theory.
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