GNOME  

SPEECH ACT making a decontextualised general statement that purports to remain true beyond the context in which it is uttered.

抽象命題法 The decontextualisation of discourse so as to create generalising gnomic abstract propositions or maxims, typically in narrative contexts, but also in isolated enunciations. The relation between GENERALISATION and PROVERB is by no means always clear.

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  • 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.
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  • APHORISMGNOME detached from any narrative or argumentative context, serving as a complete independent statement, constituting a LITERARY GENRE.
    • PROVERBIUMGNOME that is commonly accepted as a conventional truth.
    Ubiquitous in Greek poetry and prose. The phenomenon has been extensively studied under the heading GNOME in Greek, and the role of GNOME in Greek tragedy and comedy is manifest. Jacqueline de Romilly has studied the immense importance of generalisation in the construction of historical truth in Thucydides. CUNY 2007 provides an intensely readable model example of how this matter ought to be studied in detail for a given author, with special emphasis on the problems of definition of the phenomenon.

    There is a dire need to examine the evolution of GENERALISATION in Chinese historiography, but also in poetry.

    Rhetorical device locations: 17
    • 郭店語叢 凡物由亡生。　(亡 written as 望)
    • 論語 6.24　子曰：
    • 論語 「興於《詩》，
    • 論語 「三年學， 不至於穀 不易得也
    • 論語 「狂而不直，
    • 論語 「大哉！堯之為君也！ 巍巍乎 唯天為大 唯堯則之 蕩蕩乎 民無能名焉 巍巍乎其有成功也 煥乎其有文章也
    • 論語 9.4　子絕四：
    • 論語 「譬如為山， 未成一簣 止 吾止也 譬如平地 雖覆一簣 進 吾往也
    • 論語 「法語之言， 能無從乎 改之為貴 巽與之言 能無說乎 繹之為貴 說而不繹 從而不改 吾末如之何也已矣
    • 論語 「先進於禮樂， 野人也 後進於禮樂 君子也 如用之 則吾從先進
    • 論語 11.3　德行：顏淵、閔子騫、冉伯牛、仲弓。 言語宰我子貢 政事冉有季路 文學子游子夏
    • 論語 11.19　子曰： 回也其庶乎 屢空 賜不受命 而貨殖焉 億則屢中
    • 論語 君子敬而無失， 與人恭而有禮 四海之內 皆兄弟也
    • 論語 1.1　子曰： 學而時習之 不亦說乎 有朋自遠方來 不亦樂乎 人不知而不慍 不亦君子乎
    • 論語 1.2　有子曰： 其為人也孝弟而好犯上者 鮮矣 不好犯上而好作亂者 未之有也 君子務本 本立而道生 孝弟也者 其為人[many edd. have 仁]之本與！ 」

      This is a case of multiple GNOME, the relation between the individual points not being always clear.

    • 論語 1.7　子夏曰： 賢賢易色 事父母能竭其力 事君能致其身 與朋友交言而有信 雖曰未學 吾必謂之學矣

      Multiple.

    • 論語 1.8　子曰： 君子不重則不威 學則不固 主忠信 無友不如己者 過則勿憚改

      Multiple, with common focus.