Definition of "logos" []

• Plural form of logo. (noun)
• In Presocratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos. In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos (noun)
• Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument. (noun)
• In Aristotelian philosophy, the appeal to reason. (noun)
• A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument (noun)

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• "Philo used the term logos more than thirteen hundred times in his writings that are still available for us.5 The Logos is the instrument of mediation for a transcendent God who—following the Greek philosophers—was pure spirit being who was unable to have contact with the physical universe he had created."
• "There is disagreement about exactly what Heraclitus meant by using the term logos, but it is clear from"
• "It appears that he took the concepts of speech, ratio, and intelligence that were all contained in the word logos and personified them in his use of Logos as a technical term."