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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 irony ...
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).
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.
Hyperbaton / h aɪ ˈ p ɜːr b ə t ɒ n /, in its original meaning, is a figure of speech in which a phrase is made discontinuous by the insertion of other words. [1] In modern usage, the term is also used more generally for figures of speech that transpose sentences' natural word order, [2] [3] which is also called anastrophe.
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.
The name Sige occurs in the description which Hippolytus (vi. 18) quotes from the Apophasis, how from the supreme Principle there arise the male and female offshoots nous and epinoia. The name Sige is there given not to either of the offshoots but to the supreme Principle itself: however, in the description, these offshoots appear less as ...
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]
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