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ἀντίθεσις

ἀντίθεσις, opposition, resistance

ἀντί-θεσις, εως, ἡ,
  • opposition, Pl. Sph. 257e, 258b; ἀντίθεσιν ἔχειν πρός τι correspond to . ., Arist. HA 503a25; resistance, AP 12.200 (Strat.).
      • 2 in Logic, opposition of propositions, in pl., Arist. Int. 19b20, Top. 113b15, Metaph. 1054a23.
        • b substitution of the contradictory, as ‘not-man’ for ‘man’, ἡ σὺν -θέσει ἀντιστροφή, conversion by negation, e.g. ‘man is an animal ∴ what is not an animal cannot be a man’, Anon. in SE 15.23, al.
      • 3 Rhet., antithesis, Isoc. 12.2, Arist. Rh. 1410a22; in forensic oratory, counter-proposition, Hermog. Id. 1.4, al.
      • 4 Gramm., change or transposition of a letter, Hdn.Gr. 2.945, Diom. 1.442K.

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