techne
Americannoun
plural
technesExample Sentences
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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
Napoleon Bonaparte’s dictatorship was a triumph of techne that put his nation at arms, but it failed to restore stable frameworks of themis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Bell distinguished between what the Greeks called techne and themis.
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
What he means is that these proofs, or pieces of evidence, are not part of the techne of rhetoric.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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