Talk:Antithesis

[Untitled]
remove the anime garbage. It has no place on the wikipedia 72.137.24.194 00:18, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

article protected
This edit war might have been a candidate for WP:LAME. Decide what's best, here on this page, and request unprotection at WP:RFPP. ··coe l acan 21:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I've stopped watching this page. I cannot deal with the robotic enforcement of guidelines. J. D. Redding 21:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The article is now unprotected. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 22:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Reference for when the page becomes unprotected


Hoping it's useful, Willow 15:36, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

category (etymology)
when possible, please add Category:Greek loanwords. word is greek αντίθεσις, from αντί+θέσις.--Polyvios 09:23, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. – gpvos (talk) 20:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

disambig needed at top
At the top, this should appear:
 * ''This article is about the rhetorical device. For the historical issue in Dutch politics, see Antithesis (Netherlands).

– gpvos (talk) 12:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. – gpvos (talk) 20:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Antithesis in law
The article should say something about antithesis in statutory interpretation. That is, interpreting what appears to be sufficient conditions for a certain sanction, as necessary and sufficient conditions for the sanction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.177.155.194 (talk) 14:29, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

In fiction
Antithesis is also a rhetorical figure of speech, often used in both poetry and prose.


 * Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more.
 * (William Shakespeare, "Julius Cæsar," Act 3, scene 2, 22)
 * My only love sprung from my only hate"
 * (Juliet when she finds Romeo is a member of the Montague family and therefore an enemy of her)
 * My only love sprung from my only hate"
 * (Juliet when she finds Romeo is a member of the Montague family and therefore an enemy of her)
 * (Juliet when she finds Romeo is a member of the Montague family and therefore an enemy of her)

I removed the above from the article because the main sentence is unsupported by citation, and the 2 demonstrations given don't as far as I can tell illustrate anything to do with antithesis let alone "a rhetorical figure of speech" Jasonfward (talk) 15:35, 18 March 2011 (UTC)


 * These are genuine examples of antithesis, though a reference is needed. The heading "in fiction" is puzzling, since antithesis of this kind is commoner in non-fiction, such as speeches. Kanjuzi (talk) 17:25, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Katy Perry in the lead section
Is this a joke? Is this the demise of our culture?Zythe (talk) 12:57, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No. No. --Spannerjam (talk) 13:00, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Biblical use of antithesis
Something is missing in this sentence, "Daniel Harrington believes that the community for which Matthew wrote primarily but not exclusively Jewish Christians." Probably something like "consisted of", but I'd like to check with a few others before I change it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garrrick (talk • contribs) 07:58, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Antithesis in the Bible
The section on the antitheses of Matthew 5 (which some people dispute are not antitheses at all), is much too long, and unbalances the article. All this detailed argumentation should be put in the separate article on Matthew 5. Kanjuzi (talk) 06:07, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Puzzling English
The sentence "This is based on the logical phrase or term." doesn't make any sense to me, no matter how many citations it may have. Kanjuzi (talk) 17:27, 20 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Seems like a non sequitur and doesn't make sense to me either. Consider removal? Citations may be for the previous statements. FunnyKenji08 (talk) 05:36, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Concur. Researched some anonymous contributor's only 2 edits. (It was easy, I looked for "+45" characters, the length of the questionable sentence.)
 * THE ONLY 2 EDITS from this IP Address:
 * "User contributions for 2601:18A:C100:8CBC:C8EC:7192:C04E:5325
 * 9 March 2019
 * 19:51, 9 March 2019
 * diff hist
 * +45
 * ‎The [sic] is based on the logical phrase or term↵.
 * Antithesis
 * ‎No edit summary
 * 19:51, 9 March 2019
 * diff hist
 * +4
 * [insert 3 blank lines here, before the beginning of the article, which he/she did, 5 years ago, along with a "↵"]
 * Antithesis
 * ‎No edit summary
 * This is the contributions page for an IP user, identified by the user's IP address. [no username] Many IP addresses change periodically, and are often shared by several users...."
 * (End of Wikipedia-supplied user edits)
 * ME AGAIN.
 * What's going on with "The [sic] is based..." and adding: "↵" twice?--Added to the very beginning of this article (along with 3 blank lines--the entirety of his/her second edit), and "↵" added between his/her contributed sentence and its period. Might I add that both edits were added to Wikipedia within 59 seconds of each other.
 * 16 days later, Tinton5 with 113,111 edits (! I have only 1% as many) removed "↵" and "↵", along with the 3 blank lines, but left the "The" for another day. Which turned out to be April 24, 2020, (13 months later) when user Cbird1057, with 30 edits, locked the sentence down for four years, by a "+1" character-edit and the description "Wrong word. 'The' is not a subject."
 * The "The/This" sentence:
 * "This is based on the logical phrase or term."
 * is coming out of its 4-year lockdown tomorrow. After I delete it.
 * I want to thank FunnyKenji08 for a recent string of remarkable edits leading me to this talk page. User:Jeffreydavidspeck 01:44, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I want to thank FunnyKenji08 for a recent string of remarkable edits leading me to this talk page. User:Jeffreydavidspeck 01:44, 5 May 2024 (UTC)