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单词 antilogy
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antilogy

/anˈtɪlədʒi /
noun (plural antilogies) archaic
A contradiction in terms or ideas.In Hopkins's poetic practice, this is rendered by the frequent use of antilogies to qualify the divine....
  • More generally, antilogy names the basic rhetorical theory (propounded by Protagoras) that two contrary arguments may be given about everything.
  • Accepting this mathematical context produces a semantical change in the meanings of the terms with the result that they no longer stand for classical concepts and are therefore no longer antilogies.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French antilogie, from Greek antilogia, from anti- 'against' + -logia (see -logy).

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