Anticategoria; or, Tu Quoque
Anticategoria; or, Tu Quoque
The use of a Counter-Charge, or Recrimination
An-ti-cat-ee-gor-i-a. Greek, , a counter-charge: from (anti), against, and , to speak against: hence, to recriminate, to accuse in turn.
The figure is used when we retort upon another the very insinuation or accusation which he has made against us. It differs from Antistrophe (see above); in that it has to do, not with any general kind of words, but with a particular accusation.
It is what the Latins called a TU QUOQUE; or, ACCUSATIO ADVERSA, an opposite accusation, or an accusation turned against another; or, TRANSLATIO IN ADVERSARIUM, a transferring against an adversary.
Eze 18:25.-Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? So verse 29, and 33:17.
This would be Anteisagoge, were it a simple question instead of an accusation.