QUAESTIO-RHETORICA-DISJUNCTIVE=DILEMMA  

反詰﹣選擇 Open unanswerable alternative question. Traditionally known as DILEMMA.

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.
I have noticed this form too late to implement the subdivision efficiently in LY, HF, and LAO as well as the earlier parts of ZHUANG. This clearly is a distinct form which deserves to be traced separately.

Rhetorical device locations: 6
  • 莊子 彼是莫得其偶， 謂之道樞
  • 莊子 果且有成與虧乎哉？ 果且無成與虧乎哉
  • 莊子 若果是也， 我果非也邪
  • 莊子 我果是也， 而果非也邪
  • 莊子 其或是也， 其或非也邪
  • 莊子 其俱是也， 其俱非也邪