PROBATIO
SPEECH ACT of demonstrating the truth or plausibility of a point one has made.
Hypernym
- 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詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
Commonly made explicit in Chinese by the QUAESTIO: 何以知其然 "How do we this this
is so?" or 何以明之 "How does one make this clear?"
- Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik
(
UEDING
1992ff)
p.
7.123