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In Onians' 1951 etymological studies of the word, he traces the primary root back to the ancient Greek association with both archery and weaving. In archery, kairos denotes the moment in which an arrow may be fired with sufficient force to penetrate a target. In weaving, kairos denotes the moment in which the shuttle could be passed through threads on the loom. Similarly enough, E.C White published a work called Kairomania, where he talks about this same concept. White describes it as,“long, tunnel-like aperture through which the archer's arrow has to pass,” and “when the weaver must draw the yarn through a gap that momentarily opens in the warp of the cloth being woven”.

Both examples are a show of an exact choice needed to be made. In the literature of the classical period, writers and orators used kairos to specify moments when the opportune action was made, often through metaphors involving archery and one's ability to aim and fire at the exact right time on-target. For example, in The Suppliants, a drama written by Euripides, Adrastus describes the ability to influence and change another person's mind by “aiming their bow beyond the kairos.” Kairos in general was formulated as a tool to explain and understand the interposition of humans for their actions and the due consequences.

Kairos is also an alternate spelling of the minor Greek deity Caerus, the god of luck and opportunity.

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My language and sources used, should I add more information to it. 1) Sipiora, Phillip, and James S. Baumlin, eds. Rhetoric and kairos: essays in history, theory, and praxis. SUNY Press, 2012. page I · typically thought as "timing" but also includes other meanings such as, "symmetry" "propriety" "occasion" "due measure" and "decorum" to name a few · quite similar to logos in the sense that both created many historical interpretations and definitions. · Isocrates rhetorical paideia is structured upon the principle of kairos page 58 · notion of kairos embodied in seven sages of Greece, "nothing in excess" "seal your word with silence and your silence as the right time" · Mario Untersteiner for the Pythagoreans one of the laws of the universe · Plato also used kairos as the basis of his theory of virtue as a mean between two extremes.

2) Räisänen, Teppo, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, and Seppo Pahnila. "Finding kairos in quitting smoking: Smokers’ perceptions of warning pictures." International Conference on Persuasive Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008. · experiment on smoking, images seemed to affect women more than men and affected kairos by leverage. · opportune moment to show these pictures is not when the participants are already smoking but much earlier than that.

3) Rickert, Thomas. "In the house of doing: Rhetoric and the kairos of ambience." JAC (2004): 901-927. · ambient rhetoric · author is a discursive fiction merely a function of discourse · words, thoughts and ideas are not exactly his but theirs: all writing is ghostwriting.

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