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What does tropology mean?

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  1. (rhetoric) The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech).
  2. (theology) The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.
  3. A recurring motif or metaphor, a trope; an interplay of tropes.
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Where the syntax of propositions is broken, we see a very general principle of tropology that grants a priori that things like texts are replacements of things like authors.
The substitutability principle is none other than a generalization of the very notion of tropology.
In the fifth and final chapter, Harkins turns to tropology, the moral reading of scripture.
Barrie's poignant attempt at ghost whispering to be trenching on the Gothic, that's because it ties into a long generic and historical convention of Gothic tropology.
Above and beyond all is that divine something to which divine Scripture leads, either in allegory or tropology.
As soon as exegesis of the Old Testament becomes an issue necessary to daily reading of Scripture, typology becomes of far greater importance than tropology.

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