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Hysteron proteron
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What's The Definition Of Hysteron proteron?
[n] the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
[n] reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born') Synonyms | Synonyms for Hysteron proteron: Related Terms | Find terms related to Hysteron proteron: anastrophe | argument | argument by analogy | argumentum ad baculum | argumentum ad captandum | argumentum ad hominem | arsy-varsiness | bad case | begging the question | chiasmus | circular argument | claptrap | clutter | crowd-pleasing argument | empty words | fallacy | farrago | formal fallacy | hash | helter-skelter | higgledy-piggledy | hodgepodge | hypallage | hyperbaton | insincere argument | jumble | litter | logical fallacy | material fallacy | mere rhetoric | mess | metastasis | metathesis | mishmash | moonshine | non sequitur | palindrome | paralogism | parenthesis | petitio principii | philosophism | pseudosyllogism | scramble | solecism | sophism | sophistry | synchysis | tmesis | topsy-turviness | topsy-turvydom | tumble | turmoil | unholy mess | verbal fallacy | weak point | welter See Also | logical fallacy | rhetorical device Hysteron proteron In Webster's Dictionary \Hys"te*ron prot"e*ron\ [NL., fr. Gr. ? the
latter, following + ? before, others, sooner.] (Rhet.)
(a) A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed;
hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, ``he is well and
lives.''
(b) An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is
put before the premises, or the thing proved before the
evidence.
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