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Apophasis (/ ə ˈ p ɒ f ə s ɪ s /; from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis), from ἀπόφημι (apóphemi) ' to say no ') [1] [2] is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. [3] Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of ...
Apophasis – pretending to deny something as a means of implicitly affirming it; as paralipsis, mentioning something by saying that you will not mention it; the opposite of occupatio. Aporia – a declaration of doubt, made for rhetorical purpose and often feigned.
In 1970, the Belgian semioticians known under the name Groupe μ, reorganized the four operations.First, they observed that the so-called transposition operation can be redefined as a series of addition and omission operations, so they renamed it as "omission-addition". [9]
In Aristotle's term logic there are two logical qualities: affirmation (kataphasis) and denial (apophasis). The logical quality of a proposition is whether it is affirmative (the predicate is affirmed of the subject) or negative (the predicate is denied of the subject).
The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic phenomena. Ambiguity
Apophasis: (Invoking) an idea by denying its (invocation), also known as occupatio or paralipsis. Apostrophe: when an actor or speaker addresses an absent third party, often a personified abstraction or inanimate object. Bathos: pompous speech with a ludicrously mundane worded anti-climax. Catachresis: blatant misuse of words or phrases.
Trump is known for his use of apophasis. [39] For example, he said of Kim Jong-un, "I would NEVER call him 'short and fat'". [40] Trumpisms frequently come in the form of insults directed at his critics, labeling them "dogs", "losers", and "enemies of the people". [41] [42]
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". ". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language, found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phra