antimetaptoton

Etymology

(RhetFig neologism, a blend of antimetabole and polyptoton) Gk. anti “against, back” + metabole, “turning about” + ptosis, "[grammatical] case”

Synonyms, partial synonyms, and alternate spellings

None

Definition

Reverse repetition of at least two word stems, involving at least one POLYPTOTON or HOMOIOPTOTON or both.

The question of realism, as Kreisel long ago put it, is the question of the objectivity of mathematics and not the question of the existence of mathematical objects. (Putnam 1975:70, qtd in Maddy 2011:115)

Maddy, P. Defending the Axioms: On the Philosophical Foundations of Set Theory. Oxford University Press, 2011.

antimetaptoton
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polyptoton
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