Definitionn. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Last update: July 4, 2015
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The first trope emphasizes the disagreement of philosophers on all fundamental points; knowledge comes either from the senses or from reason. [Please select]
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By the name [Greek: tropos] or Trope, the Sceptic understood a manner of thought, or form of argument, or standpoint of judgement. [Please select]
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That this Trope is one of the oldest, we know from its distinct mention in connection with the foundation theories of Pyrrho, by Diogenes. [Please select]
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The Mohawk approached his subject indirectly through the trope, allegory, and simile that the Indian loved. [Please select]
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Diogenes gives in part the same illustrations of this Trope, but in a much more condensed form. [Please select]
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Diogenes states this principle even more decidedly in his exposition of this Trope. [Please select]
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With Diogenes this Trope is the seventh,[3] and his exposition of it is similar, but as usual, shorter. [Please select]
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Diogenes gives only two illustrations to this Trope, that of the sun and the earthquake. [Please select]
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We find this distinction illustrated by the different way in which the Trope of relativity is treated in the two groups. [Please select]
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According to different control of the humors, differences in ideas arise also, as we represented under the first Trope. [Please select]
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Cotton Mather said distinctly that he "found no just ground in Scripture to apply such a trope as church to a house for public assembly." [Please select]
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