Traditional Chinese Meaning of hysteron proteron

倒果為因

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Definitions and Meaning of hysteron proteron in English

Wordnet

hysteron proteron (n)

reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')

the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved

Webster

hysteron proteron ()

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, he is well and lives.

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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倒果為因

reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born'), the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be

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hysterology => 滯經談, hysterogenic => 歇斯底里的, hysteroepilepsy => 癔病性癲癇, hysterocatalepsy => 歇斯底里性觸媒性精神病, hysterics => 歇斯底里,