Aphorismus
Aphorismus is a figure of speech that calls into question if a word is properly used. It often appears in the form of a rhetorical question which is meant to imply a difference between the present thing being discussed and the general notion of the subject.
Examples
- "For you have but mistook me all this while. / I live with bread like you, feel want, / Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, / How can you say to me I am a king?" William Shakespeare, Richard II Act 3, scene 2, 174-177
- "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." Bill Clinton, August 17, 1998