{"id":2673,"date":"1999-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-08-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/08\/29\/rrrhetoric-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T23:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T07:35:30","slug":"rrrhetoric-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/08\/30\/rrrhetoric-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"rrr: And Not a Mere Device (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>The word I was trying to think of for the device of \"claiming not to be saying something when you're saying it\" is <i>apophasis<\/i>. Unfortunately sources disagree as to what precisely that is. The word can apparently be used as a synonym of praeteritio (the pretending-to-omit-information \"I shall refrain from mentioning...\" one); I think I was just wrong in thinking that it applied generally to \"I come to bury Caesar\"-type \"I'm not saying x\" statements.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 12 January 2000)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/08\/29\/rrrhetoric\/\">Back to column rrr<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-lllowercase-3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}