The vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical : with quotations and references for the use of students / by William Fleming ; edited by Henry Calderwood.
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- 1876
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![APODEICTIO, APODEICTICAL tions which admitted of contradiction or dialectic discussion, and such as were the basis or result of demonstration. Kant , wished to introduce an analogous distinction between our judgments, and to give the name of apodeictic to such as were above all contradiction. APOLOGUE (atxo'Aoyoj, fabula), “a novel story, contrived to teach some moral truth.”—Johnson. [A fable or allegory.] “ It would be a high relief to hear an apologue or fable well told and with such humour as to need no sententious moral at the end to make the application.”—(Shaftesbury, vol. iii. Miscell. 4, ch. 1.) The difference between a parable and an apologue is, that the former being drawn from human life re- quires probability in the narration; whereas the apologue being taken from inanimate things or the inferior animals, is not confined strictly to probability. The fables of Hlsop are apologues. For an admirable instance of the \oyo; or apologue, see Cole- ridge’s Friend, where the case of the seizure of the Danish fleet by the English is represented in this form. APOLOGY [a.'iroKoyia., a defence made in a court of justice).— We have a work of Xenophon, entitle*! th a Apology of Socrates, and another with the same title by Plato. The term was adopted by the Christian fathers, and applied to their writings in defence of Christianity, and in answer to its opponents. About the year 125, Quadratus and Aristides presented Apo- logies to the Emperor Hadrian when on a visit to Athens. Tertullian addressed his Apologetic to the magistrates of Rome, the emperor Severus being then absent. APOPHTHEGM (airoipQiyyopcti, to speak out plainly). A short and pithy speech or saying, as that of Augustus, Festina lente. The Lacedaemonians used much this mode of speaking. Plutarch has a collection entitled the Apophthegms of Kings and Generals, many of which are anecdotes ; and also another entitled Laconica. Drusius (Joan. Prof. Heb. Lupd. Bat) published in 1612, a collection of Hebrew and° Arabic Apophthegms. Erasmus has a collection of Apovhtheams 12mo, Basil, 1558. Macaulay (On Addison p. 11) blames Sir Richard Black- more because he has confounded an aphorism with an apophthegm.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2199531x_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
