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Synecdoche, referring to a whole by the name of one of its parts (or vice versa): Pars pro toto, where the part is used to refer to the whole. Totum pro parte, where the whole is used to refer to a part. Lock, stock, and barrel; Dvandva; Hendiadys – Conjunction for emphasis
Binary opposition is the system of language and/or thought by which two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. [1] It is the contrast between two mutually exclusive terms, such as on and off, up and down, left and right. [ 2 ]
One statement is the contrapositive of the other only when its antecedent is the negated consequent of the other, and vice versa. Thus a contrapositive generally takes the form of: Thus a contrapositive generally takes the form of:
According to Sanskrit grammarian Hemachandra, āstika is a synonym for 'he who believes'. [17] Other definitions include: 'opposite of nāstika' (nāstika bhinna); 'he whose idea is that Īśvara exists' (īśvara asti iti vādī); and 'he who considers the Vedas as authorities' (vedaprāmāṇyavādī).
A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
In classical logic, negation is normally identified with the truth function that takes truth to falsity (and vice versa). In intuitionistic logic , according to the Brouwer–Heyting–Kolmogorov interpretation , the negation of a proposition P {\displaystyle P} is the proposition whose proofs are the refutations of P {\displaystyle P} .