ADVOCATIO DIABOLI 反對真理法
HISTRIONIC device in which the speaker takes on the role of the "advocate of the devil", arguing as best he can for the case that is being dismissed.
魔鬼詭辯法 Advocacy of a proposition which is the opposite of what is generally accepted by everyone, including the speaker.
Hypernym
- 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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
See Ueding, Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik: Advocatus dei/diaboli for
a detailed historical survey.
The Greek philosopher Carneades became notorious in Rome for advocating the crucial use and importance of injustice. Cicero, De Re Publica, book three (3.5ff) has preserved parts of a similar advocacy in the spirit of Carneades, by Philus.
Zhuangzi's defense of the Robber Zhi needs to be compared in detail.
The Greek philosopher Carneades became notorious in Rome for advocating the crucial use and importance of injustice. Cicero, De Re Publica, book three (3.5ff) has preserved parts of a similar advocacy in the spirit of Carneades, by Philus.
Zhuangzi's defense of the Robber Zhi needs to be compared in detail.
- Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik
(
UEDING
1992ff)
p.
1.131