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Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked.
Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person." Ann Althouse 2009
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cataphasis: a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something. Theological understandings of the Divine would fall under the title of cataphasis
July 28, 2012