1. Unclassified
A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."
2. Unclassified
An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.
3. Noun
reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in ‘bred and born’)
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
4. Noun
the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
Vocabulary classified under Philosophy
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