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Hysteron proteron

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A figure of speech in which a phrase that should come last is put first; hysterology. rhetoric

    ""He is well and lives" is a hysteron proteron."

  2. 2
    the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved wordnet
  3. 3
    An inversion or reversal of the natural order of things.
  4. 4
    reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in ‘bred and born’) wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek, from ὕστερον (hústeron, “latter, arriving late”) + πρότερον (próteron, “former, before”).

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