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Ectypal vs Ectype - What's the difference?

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Ectypal is a related term of ectype.


As an adjective ectypal

is copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original has a specialised sense when used by the philosopher.

As a noun ectype is

(philosophy) a copy; usually contrasted with the original, or archetype .

ectypal

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original. Has a specialised sense when used by the philosopher .
  • * The Works of George Berkeley, edited by Luce & Jessop, Volume 2, p254
  • What would you have! do I not acknowledge a twofold state of things, the one ectypal or natural, the other archetypal and eternal? The former was created in time; the latter existed from everlasting in the mind of God.

    ectype

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) A copy; usually contrasted with the original, or archetype.
  • * 2001 , Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review , Issues 170-172, page 30,
  • If my account is correct, both archetypes and ectypes' are 'real' insofar as they are composed of ideas of sensation. But I draw a distinction that Johnson does not acknowledge, viz., a distinction between ontological and epistemic ' ectypes .
  • * 2004 , Jean-Luc Marion, James K. A. Smith (translator), The Crossing of the Visible , page 38,
  • The painting traces itself from itself by suddenly appearing in these ectypes'. But the ' ectypes only mark the final accomplishment of this sudden appearance.
  • * 2008 , Ryan L. Showler, Archetypal and Ectypal Ideals in Kant's Practical Philosophy , page 51,
  • It is likely that little attention has been paid to the archetype/ectype relationship in Kant scholarship in the English speaking world partly as a result of inconsistent translations of the German terms “Urbild” and “Nachbild” that make it difficult to even notice the relationship.