Then the figurae sententiarum, or figures of thought, such as rhetorical questions, hints, and exclamations.
First there were the figurae verborum, or figures of language, which sought agreeable sounds alone or in combination, such as antitheses, rhymes, and assonances.
In the paralogisms of Rational Psychology, the logical fallacy committed is that of ambiguous middle, or as Kant names it, the sophisma figurae dictionis.
There is, therefore, a dialectical fallacy in the syllogism--a sophisma figurae dictionis.
Thus the conclusion is here arrived at by a Sophisma figurae dictionis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "figurae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
