From: Jamie Vicary <jamievicary@gmail.com>
To: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: Categories list <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: The humility topos
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:26:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OWU9R-0001DF-DV@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1OW6Gd-0001v7-7Z@mailserv.mta.ca>
> 1. Volume Ti-Tz of the OED does not contain the word "topos," nor does it
> appear under the entries for "humility" or "literary." (Ordinarily the OED
> can relied on to record just about every English word that has appeared in
> print prior to the 20th century.)
I have access to the full online version of the OED, which does
contain the word topos. The earliest citation it has is to a 1948 work
of Leo Spitzer, who was apparently a linguist and literary historian.
Here is his Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Spitzer
He was Austrian, and it seems quite possible that he could have read
Curtius' treatise in the original German and begun to use the word
"topos" himself in the same year.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-28 19:49 Michael Barr
2010-06-30 19:15 ` Dusko Pavlovic
2010-07-02 8:02 ` Steve Vickers
2010-07-02 15:03 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2010-07-05 20:20 ` Vaughan Pratt
2010-07-06 11:47 ` Colin McLarty
2010-07-06 12:26 ` Jamie Vicary [this message]
2010-07-06 12:29 ` Graham White
2010-07-07 14:16 ` Colin McLarty
[not found] ` <4C2DFFD3.8050406@dm.uba.ar>
2010-07-02 15:41 ` Michael Barr
2010-07-04 23:44 ` Jean-Pierre Marquis
2010-07-04 17:31 ` Colin McLarty
2010-06-29 2:06 Toby Bartels
2010-06-29 4:33 John Baez
2010-06-29 17:20 Robert J. MacG. Dawson
2010-06-30 14:05 ` Prof. Peter Johnstone
[not found] ` <1277950072.4c2bf878cf89f@webmail.adelaide.edu.au>
2010-07-02 12:28 ` Robert J. MacG. Dawson
2010-07-06 12:02 Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
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