topos

Definitions

1. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
2. A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
3. A toilet.
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Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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