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Terms vs Ectype - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and ectype

is that terms is while ectype is (philosophy) a copy; usually contrasted with the original, or archetype .

terms

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    ectype

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    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.