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hysteron proteron

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A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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