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paradiastole

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3 months ago VanishedOne said:

Spiked: '...This first becomes clear in Runciman’s discussion of Hobbes where he turns to look at paradiastole, or what the intellectual historian, Quentin Skinner, calls ‘rhetorical redescription’. This denotes the act of not just describing an action, but, in doing so, commending or denouncing it. For Hobbes, this was what he called ‘colouring’, the act of giving an action a particular moral hue.'

5 months ago whichbe said:

A euphemistic half-truth. (Luciferous Logolepsy)

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