ANTILOGIA  反成見法

IRONIA in the form of elaborate argumentation in favour of the opposite of one's views,

Hypernym
  • IRONIAHISTRIONIC way of expressing something by playfully creating an appearance of claiming its opposite, typically assuming one's playfulness to be understood by the intended audience. The use of words to express something diametrically different from their meaning, or in a histrionically mediated sense. test
    • HISTRIONICSRHETORICAL TROPE which crucially involves playful dissimulation of one's real meaning.
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Hyponym
Lanham's reading "several opposing speeches on the same topic" is a late usage, probably of Renaissance date, so is Dupriez's defintion "contradiction in terms" which is taken from OED and Robert.

REF: Lausberg 1119 takes this to refer to contradicting a current saying.

Greek/Latin: Theonos progymnasmata Sprengel vol. 2. 5 p. 101,4 and p. 103, 20-28 discusses this traditional form.

Ancient Chinese: One is tempted to look for examples for this in ZHUANG. There may have been progumnasmata "preparatory rhetorical exercises" of this sort at the time of De4ng Xi1, for he himself was famous for being able to speak well for and against the same proposition, but little is known about the details of the training of legal specialists in ancient China. Note the concept 兩行 in pre-Buddhist philosophy.

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