Logos

Logos (Greek: λόγος) is one of the key terms in “Deconstruction of Reality.”
This word denotes the coincidence, resonance, and living connection between meaning and form.

What is logos?

• Logos is meaning manifested in form.
• It is the moment when an inner idea becomes externally visible, when meaning finds its expression in a word, an action, a law, a text, or a structure.
• Logos is the bridge between the inner and the outer, between the invisible and the visible.

Form, meaning, logos

• Meaning is the inner content, intention, idea, feeling, truth, design, or order that is meant to be realized.
• Form is the way of expression: a word, speech, text, action, rule, structure, law, or object.
• Logos is when form does not merely exist, but truly expresses meaning.
  Form and meaning coincide, resonate, and make each other “transparent.”

Examples of logos and its absence

• When there is logos:
  — Living speech filled with meaning.
  — A text that conveys the author’s thought, not just a set of words.
  — A law that serves justice, not just formal interests.
  — Art in which form reveals the intent.
  — An act in which the external deed expresses the inner state.
• When there is no logos:
  — Bureaucratic procedure for the sake of procedure.
  — A form that has become an empty shell.
  — Manipulation, when beautiful words hide the opposite meaning.
  — When someone is “formally right,” but in fact destroys meaning for their own interest, deceives, or hides behind the rules.

Logos as a criterion: where is meaning, and where is emptiness?

• Logos is the criterion for distinguishing the “living” from the “dead” in language, laws, institutions, art, and any human activity.
• Where form is filled with meaning and manifests it—there logos is born.
• Where form kills meaning, becomes dominant, where meaning is lost, displaced, or distorted—logos disappears.

Typical expressions

• “There is no logos in your words.”
• “This is a law without logos—a form that has lost its meaning.”
• “Logos is violated here: the form does not express what it was created for.”
• “When form kills meaning, that is the absence of logos.”

Why this matters for “Deconstruction of Reality”

• “Deconstruction of Reality” operates on the distinction between form and meaning.
• Logos is a fundamental criterion for analysis:
  — Does the form coincide with genuine meaning?
  — Does some living truth remain behind the outer order, for the sake of which the structure, rule, or law exists at all?
  — Or has form become autonomous, driving out everything living and real?
• Without logos, everything becomes dead form, simulacrum, mask, or a tool of manipulation.
  With logos, genuine communication, creativity, justice, and connection between people and worlds are born.

The formula of logos

Logos = meaning that has become form; form filled with meaning.

In summary

• Logos is not just a “word” or “law,” but a deep unity of meaning and form—their resonance and transparency to each other.
• It is a “living” form, which does not conceal meaning but makes it accessible and communicable.
• Where form kills meaning, logos disappears. Where meaning comes alive in form—logos is manifested.