QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-CONDITIONAL  

假設反詰法 Conditional rhetorical question.

Hypernym
  • QUAESTIO-RHETORICAQUAESTIO which in fact emphatically affirms its assumed answer. Rhetorical question which is neither concluding nor initial.Traditionally: EROTEMA.
    • QUAESTIOADDRESS in the form of an open question.The posing of open questions without providing or expecting an answer. Compare APORIA, DUBITATIO, HAESITATIO.
      • ADDRESSSPEECH ACT of explicitly addressing an audience.
        • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
          • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
    • AFFIRMATIOSPEECH ACT of not only mentioning but affirming a sentence, i.e. making a statement which involves a truth-claim. 　　
      • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
        • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Rhetorical device locations: 22
  • 韓非子 今為禮者 事通人之樸心 而資之以相責之分 能毋爭乎
  • 道德經 人之不善，
  • 道德經 若使民常畏死， 而為奇者 吾將得執而殺之 夫孰敢矣
  • 論語 「居敬而行簡， 以臨其民 不亦可乎
  • 論語 「子為政， 焉用殺
  • 論語 先事後得， 非崇德與
  • 論語 攻其惡， 無攻人之惡 非脩慝與
  • 論語 非惑與？」
  • 論語 如其善而莫之違也， 不亦善乎
  • 論語 「愛之， 能勿勞乎
  • 論語 忠焉， 能勿誨乎
  • 論語 「直道而事人， 焉往而不三黜
  • 論語 枉道而事人， 何必去父母之邦

    This is of course, in a sense, concluding, but it is in fact part of an ISOCOLON.

  • 論語 而誰與？
  • 論語 「因民之所利而利之， 斯不亦惠而不費乎
  • 論語 擇可勞而勞之， 又誰怨
  • 論語 斯不亦泰而不驕乎！
  • 莊子 可不謂大哀乎？
  • 莊子 人謂之不死， 奚益 其形化
  • 莊子 夫隨其成心而師之， 誰獨且無師乎
  • 莊子 既已為一矣， 且得有言乎
  • 莊子 既已謂之一矣， 且得無言乎