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• Khôra

  The third kind (triton genos) introduced in Plato's Timaeus (48e–53c) beside being (Form) and becoming (copy): the receptacle "in which" all becoming appears — named by an irreducible cluster of metaphors (receptacle hypodochē, "wetnurse"…

• Light of the Flesh

  Merleau-Ponty's late doctrine of a "new idea of light": light inseparable from shadow, structurally diffused in the flesh rather than emanating from an intelligible sun. Developed in the preparatory notes for the 1960–61 course "Philosophy…

• Timaeus Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE — one of the stylometrically secure "late" dialogues (Cooper, Intro §II) — (trans. Donald J. Zeyl, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue