- The
hysteron proteron (from the Gr****: ὕστερον πρότερον, hýsteron
próteron, "later earlier") is a
rhetorical device. It
occurs when the
first key word...
- The
Hysteron Proteron Club,
sometimes spelt "Husteron
Proteron", was a
dining club at
Balliol College, Oxford, in the 1920s. The name
refers to a hysteron...
- with pre-posterous (lit. "with the
hinder part before",
compare hysteron proteron, "upside-down", "head over heels", "****-backwards" etc.) or sopho-more...
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Colonel the Hon.
George Hysteron-
Proteron CB (c. 1874–1942) is a
fictional character created by the
author J. K. Stanford. A
British soldier, sporting...
- kill one's own
grandfather generates a
circular contradiction Hysteron proteron –
Figure of
speech reversing a
natural or
rational order Irony – Rhetorical...
- γεγόνοι, νὺξ ἢ ἡμέρα; "νύξ, μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ πρότερον. Tì
próteron gegónoi, nùx ḕ hēméra? núx, miâi hēmérāi
próteron. "Which is older, day or night? "Night is the...
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every clause having its own
independent subject and predicate.
Hysteron proteron: the
inversion of the
usual temporal or
causal order between two elements...
- line 230: "May not an **** know when the cart
draws the horse?" Hysteron-
proteron Wag the dog Look up put the cart
before the
horse in Wiktionary, the free...
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fallacy involves only a
single variable, it is
sometimes called a
hysteron proteron (Gr**** for 'later earlier'), a
rhetorical device, as in the statement:...
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Nymphs in the
Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hermoniakos'
Iliad Hysteron proteron Epithets in
Homer Dactylic hexameter Translations On
Translating Homer...
