ἀντίθεσις

English (LSJ)

εως, ἡ,

   A opposition, Pl.Sph.257e,258b; ἀντίθεσιν ἔχειν πρός τι correspond to .., Arist.HA503a25; resistance, AP12.200 (Strat.).    2 in Logic, opposition of propositions, in pl., Arist.Int. 19b20, Top.113b15, Metaph.1054a23.    b substitution of the contradictory, as 'not-man' for 'man', ἡ σὺν -θέσει ἀντιστροφή, conversion by negation, e.g. 'man is an animal ∴ what is not an animal cannot be a man', Anon.in SE15.23, al.    3 Rhet., antithesis, Isoc. 12.2, Arist.Rh.1410a22; in forensic oratory, counter-proposition, Hermog.Id.1.4, al.    4 Gramm., change or transposition of a letter, Hdn.Gr.2.945, Diom.1.442K.

German (Pape)

[Seite 252] ἡ, der Gegensatz, Plat. Soph 257 e; Plut. im rhetor. Sinne, das Entgegensetzen, Isocr. 12, 2.