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Definition of hysteron proterons in English English dictionary
- plural form of hysteron proteron
- hysteron proteron
- An inversion or reversal of the natural order of things
- hysteron proteron
- A figure of speech in which a phrase that should come last is put first; hysterology
- hysteron proteron
- A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives
- hysteron proteron
- " An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence
- hysteron proteron
- (as in `bred and born')
- hysteron proteron
- the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc
- hysteron proteron
- An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence
- hysteron proteron
- hysterology