English Dictionary

dormitive virtue

名詞

慣用表現 修辞法

(idiomatic, rhetoric, logic, linguistics) A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.

日本語の意味

対象の性質を、その対象自身（通常はより抽象的な表現）を用いて説明する、循環的な（同義反復的な）論法。 / 言い換えによる説明で、実質的な情報を追加せず、対象を自らの性質で定義する説明方法。

Calling the drug effective because it possesses a dormitive virtue is a classic example of circular reasoning.

その薬を効くと言い、その理由を同語反復的な説明に求めるのは、循環論法の典型例だ。

意味（1）

(idiomatic, rhetoric, logic, linguistics) A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.

The inevitable next suggestion -— that aesthetic experience is distinguished not by pleasure at all but by a special aesthetic emotion can be dropped on the waste-pile of "dormitive virtue” explanations

dormitive virtues （ plural ）