| The practice of antilogy involved new intellectual tools, including the argument based on probability. |
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| The dominance of antilogy in the De coniuratione cannot be understood except against this classical background. |
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| Were I to refuse to come at the problem by way of moral self-acceptance, I could easily reduce the cogito to either tautology or antilogy. |
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| Very little use of antilogy is made by his contemporary Neapolitan chroniclers of the Conspiracy of Macchia. |
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| On this account of Isocrates' understanding of antilogy and his uses of the speeches, Isocrates' students would learn that reality is what rhetoric presents it to be. |
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| He does not take advantage of this form to contrast the personalities of the two speakers, as he does so brilliantly in the antilogy between Nicias and Alcibiades on the Sicilian expedition. |
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| More generally, antilogy names the basic rhetorical theory that two contrary arguments may be given about everything. |
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| Thucydides crafts levels of antilogy within and between all the elements of his text such that his readers are invited, as a kind of witness both to the war and to human nature. |
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| The rigor of antilogy tends to transform all the elements of argumentation into comparable givens, subject to addition or subtraction, and thus interchangeable. |
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| But life isn't perfect, Ms. Bell pointed out, and you can make yourself crazy chasing an antilogy. |
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