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The concept can be found in the work of the Hellenistic sophist and philosopher Favorinus (c. 110 CE) who observed that faint and half-hearted praise was more harmful than loud and persistent abuse.
Aporia is also a rhetorical device whereby the speaker expresses a doubt—often feigned—about their position or asks the audience rhetorically how the speaker should proceed. One aim of aporia may be to discredit the speaker's opponent. Aporia is also called dubitatio. For example:
Accismus is a feigned refusal of something earnestly desired. [1] [2] [3]The 1823 Encyclopædia Britannica writes that accismus may sometimes be considered as a virtue or sometimes a vice.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Caitlin Clark had a strong response to Megyn Kelly's criticism about her recent comments regarding white privilege in the WNBA.. After 22-year-old Clark — who was just named Time’s Athlete of ...
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"Feigned madness" is a phrase used in popular culture to describe the assumption of a mental disorder for the purposes of evasion, deceit or the diversion of suspicion. In some cases, feigned madness may be a strategy—in the case of court jesters , an institutionalised one—by which a person acquires a privilege to violate taboos on speaking ...