ἀντίθεσις
antithesis
opposition
Appears 31 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἀντίθεσις, εως, ἡ, A. opposition, Sph. 257e,258b; ἀντίθεσιν ἔχειν πρός τι correspond to . ., HA 503a25; resistance, AP 12.200 (). 2. in Logic, opposition of propositions, in pl., Int. 19b20, Top. 113b15, Metaph. 1054a23. b. substitution of the contradictory, as ‘not-man’ for ‘man’, ἡ σὺν -θέσει ἀντιστροφή, conversion by negation, e.g. ‘man is an animal ∴ what is not an animal cannot be a man’, in SE 15.23, al. 3. Rhet., antithesis, 12.2, Rh. 1410a22; in forensic oratory, counter-proposition, Id. 1.4, al. 4. Gramm., change or transposition of a letter, Hdn.Gr.2.945, 1.442K.
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