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Aphorist

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Meaning

A person who creates or recites aphorisms..

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Leaving the reader to study the details of the discussion in Dr. Ballantyne's aphorisms of the Nyāya (Part Second, pp. 77 ff.), I will pass over most of the Sūtras, and merely quote the principal conclusions of the Nyāya aphorist.
In the examination of the revisions which these texts underwent, we have stolen a rare glance into the interior of the workshop of the aphorist.
[Juhani Siljo]'s natural form of expression was the aphorism; he is one of the best aphorists of his time and in Finnish literature.

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What does aphorist mean?

Aphorist means A person who creates or recites aphorisms..

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Leaving the reader to study the details of the discussion in Dr. Ballantyne's aphorisms of the Nyāya (Part Second, pp. 77 ff.), I will pass over most of the Sūtras, and merely quote the principal conclusions of the Nyāya aphorist.

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