different between ectypal vs ectype

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?ta?p?l/

Adjective

ectypal

1. Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original.
2. (philosophy) Corresponding to external reality.
   • 1713, George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

     What would you have! do I not acknowledge a twofold state of things, the one ectypal or natural, the other archetypal and eternal? The former was created in time; the latter existed from everlasting in the mind of God.

English

Noun

ectype (plural ectypes)

1. (philosophy) A copy, usually contrasted with the original, or archetype.
   • 2001, Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review, Issues 170-172, page 30,

     If my account is correct, both archetypes and ectypes are 'real' insofar as they are composed of ideas of sensation. But I draw a distinction that Johnson does not acknowledge, viz., a distinction between ontological and epistemic ectypes.

   • 2004, Jean-Luc Marion, James K. A. Smith (translator), The Crossing of the Visible, page 38,

     The painting traces itself from itself by suddenly appearing in these ectypes. But the ectypes only mark the final accomplishment of this sudden appearance.
2. An idea or impression that corresponds to external reality.

Related terms

• ectypal

French

Noun

ectype f (plural ectypes)

1. ectype