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Topos vs Topoi - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between topos and topoi

is that topos is a literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula while topoi is plural of lang=en.

topos

English

(wikipedia topos)

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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    Anagrams

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    topoi

    English

    Alternative forms

    * toposes

    Noun

    (head)
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