And this is the same Trope used when one speaks about himself in extenuation and gives a judgment contrary to one's own.
Another Trope which is called Metalepsis, signifying a different thing by a synonym (O.
The foundation-thought of this Trope is given twice by Diogenes, once as we have before stated in his introduction[3] to the life of Pyrrho, and also as one of the Tropes.
This Trope is the tenth by Diogenes, and he strengthens his reasoning in regard to it, by a statement that Sextus does not directly make, i.
The fifth Trope states 183 that they all, so to speak, assign causes according to their own hypotheses about the elements, but not according to any commonly accepted methods.
We find this distinction illustrated by the different way in which the Trope of relativity is treated in the two groups.
The wisdom contained in thisTrope in reference to the relative value of the things most sought after is not original with Sextus, but is found in the more earnest ethical teachings of older writers.
The name Trope was well known in ancient times, and the number ten reminds us of the ten opposing principles of Pythagoras, and the ten categories of Aristotle, the fourth of which was the same as the eighth Trope.
The third Trope 182 states that the Dogmatics assign causes which do not show any order for things which have taken place in an orderly manner.
The first trope emphasizes the disagreement of philosophers on all fundamental points; knowledge comes either from the senses or from reason.
The second trope deals with the validity of proof; the proof of one so-called fact depends on another fact which itself needs demonstration, and so on ad infinitum.
The fifth trope points out the impossibility of proving the sensible by the intelligible inasmuch as it remains to establish the intelligible in its turn by the sensible.
The friends of the zoötrope surely knew another little plaything, the thaumatrope.
The problem did not arise with the kinetoscope only but had interested the preceding generations who amused themselves with the phenakistoscope and the stroboscopic disks or the magic cylinder of the zoötrope and bioscope.
The child who made his zoötrope revolve and looked through the slits of the black cover in the drum saw through every slit the drawing of a dog in one particular position.
From this was developed the popular toy which as the zoötrope or bioscope became familiar everywhere.
The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.
This trope again relates to the immediate; if, therefore, what has to be done is merely to believe some statement inasmuch as it is made by others, undoubtedly nothing but contradiction takes place.
The tenth trope mainly concerns ethics and is related to manners, customs and laws.
This example does not, however, come in here, but this tropewill show that because one sensuous feeling contradicts another, existence is not expressed in it.
The eighth trope arises from the relativity of things, and is thus the universal trope of relationship.
The fifth trope relates to the different positions, distances and places, for from every different standpoint the object appears to be different.
The first trope is the diversitude in animal organization, according to which different living beings experience different conceptions and sensations respecting the same object.
The fourth trope deals with the diversitude of circumstances in the subject, in reference to its condition, the changes taking place in it, which must prevent our making an assertion respecting any particular thing.
He was equally wise in declining to throw more than a trope or sprightly sally in the direction of people who dealt only in the multiplication of metaphysical abracadabras.
And here goes: "Jack Frigidos, Jack Frigidos, Oh, what a trope you are!
Even the cutters of turf and drawers of whiskey are orators; even the cottiers and gossoons speak in trope and figure.
The same trope is employed in the following metaphorical expression:--the seeds of the Gospel have been watered by the blood of the martyrs.
A tropeis a movynge and changynge of a worde or sentence, from thyr owne significacion into another which may agree with it by a similitude.
The affection of a trope is the quality whereby it requires a second resolution.
In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips.
Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change.
Defn: The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
Defn: To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.
If the trope arouses our emotions it is poetry not because it is an ornament but because it touches our unconscious souls.
A trope then is poetry only when arousing ecstasy; such poetry is not of the highest order.
The trope was an early adornment of poetry as rhythm was.
Even when it has lacked the quality which fills the reader with ecstasy, the trope has been called poetry just because it was a trope.
Is not the trope of music, to avoid or slide from the close or cadence, common with the trope of rhetoric of deceiving expectation?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
