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this morning i was exploring the word 'apocryphal', and i stumbled across an interesting rhetorical term: apocrisis
my source described it merely as "replying to one's own arguments". can anyone elucidate further? the Greek word "apokrisis" merely means "an answer", so how did apocrisis come to encompass also the aspect of self-argument?
it would seem the ultimate case of diversivolence, when one starts arguing with oneself ~ what a fun word for the philopolemics among us!
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