Sentence example with the word 'trope'

trope

Definition n. 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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