2015年6月15日 · Let's say in a politician's ten minute media campaign they address many things, but leave out climate change. Could this be considered an apophasis on their part, No. That is simply an omission. The essence of apophasis is that you do refer to a subject but only by way of referring to the fact that you will not mention it.

Apophasis is exactly what you seek. To borrow the definition from Chambers, it means "effectively saying something by stating that you will not mention it." It is a commonly-used word in theology: a description of God is apophatic when He is described using what He is not.

2020年2月12日 · Oftentimes, apophasis or paralipsis operates by implying that the audience already knows about the information that the speaker is "refusing" to bring up or, if they don't know about it, that it's because the information isn't important or relevant to the discussion at hand - thereby playing on irony in that the information indirectly mentioned ...

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Apophasis (ə-pŏf′ə-sĭs) comes in different guises: some ethical, some unethical, and some a mixture of both ethical and unethical elements. I think your examples comprise the latter; namely, an admixture of--or cross between--the two. Here are three instances of apophasis: one ethical, one unethical, and one an admixture:

2015年7月6日 · But the intention is clearly the same, and on the Wikipedia page for paralipsis (which redirects to apophasis), another example is given in which Ronald Reagan implies something about a political opponent in a similarly oblique manner:

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2015年12月28日 · Preterition, proslepsis or apophasis, not to mention the many other derivatives with either (late) latin or greek root: praeteritio(n), occupatio on the one hand, cataphasis, paralipsis, parasiopesis on the other hand. While they vary with sources, nuances might be:

2020年1月2日 · I wonder if it could be shoehorned into apophasis, except that the examples provided aren't ironic (I don't think). According to Wikipedia apophasis "is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony."