Paralipsis
(παράλειψις), also spelled
paraleipsis or paralepsis, and known also as praeteritio, preterition,
cataphasis (κατάφασις), antiphrasis
(ἀντίφρασις), or parasiopesis
(παρασιώπησις), is a
rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying
that it should be invoked.
— Wikipedia
This is in the Wikipedia article for "apophasis" (not to
be confused with Apophysis). So we have not only an obscure word with half a
dozen totally different meanings, but half a dozen different pseudo-synonyms. I
was going to explain that Webster meant that the text ey quoted was full of
innuendo while claiming to be fair, but maybe I had better just leave it as a
cataphasic enthymeme and let Webster and the reader fill in the elliptical
pseudo-prosleptic meta-hypo-syllogism.
— Programmer in
Chief
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