techne
Americannoun
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Bell distinguished between what the Greeks called techne and themis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Europe’s savage self-destruction reunited techne and themis: the technologies of the Industrial Revolution and the ideologies of the French Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
These interactions between techne and themis produced a new understanding of human existence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
But page-by-page, Lisicky’s style relies less on extravagant language than on extravagant techne: a maximal use of complexity.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016
Rhetoric, he said, was a techne: a practical skill.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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