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Hysteron proteron   Listen
noun
Hysteron proteron  n.  (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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