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‖ pou sto
(paʊ stəʊ, prop. puː stɔː)
[a. Gr. ποῦ στῶ ‘where I may stand’; from the saying attributed to Archimedes (in Pappus 8. 11., ed. Hultsch 1060), δός µοι ποῦ στῶ, καὶ κινῶ τὴν γῆν ‘give me (a place) where I may stand, and I will move the earth’. (Usually written in Greek.)]
A place to stand on, a standing-place; fig. a basis of operation.
1847Tennyson Princ. iii. 246 She..Who learns the one Pou sto whence after-hands May move the world, tho' she herself effect But little. 1859Lowell Biglow P. Introd. 58 Accustomed to move the world with no ποῦ στῶ but his own two feet. 1890E. E. C. Jones Elem. Logic xi. 90 The interpretation of our proposition is liable to involve us in an infinite regress; we have no ποῦ στῶ. 1911J. Ward Realm of Ends iii. 67 This is the physical basis which is supposed to furnish teleology with its indispensable ποῦ στῶ. 1963W. Sellars Sci., Perception & Reality iii. 89 It is here, rather than at the level of sense contents, that we find a pou sto for the apparatus of hypothetico-deductive explanation. 1967Philos. Rev. LXXVI. 181 The self-stultifying form appears to be shorn of its ποῦ στῶ. |