"juxtology" meaning in English

See juxtology in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒʌkstɑləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: Combination of juxta- (“alongside”) + -ology ("study of"). Apparently coined by R. Allen Shoaf in the 1980s Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|juxta|gloss1=alongside}} juxta- (“alongside”) + Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} juxtology (uncountable)
  1. the study in literature of juxtaposition in text and semantics. Tags: uncountable
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          "text": "1989 R.A. Shoaf, \"Medieval Studies After Derrida, After Heidigger,\" in Julian N. Wasserman, Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature, Syracuse University Press, 1989.\nJuxtology emerges from the ancient epistemology of knowledge by contraries and pursues, by comparisons - be they of thinkers and their ideas or of the minutest items of a text, syllables and even individual letters - the aleatory juxtapositions of minds or of sounds that produce the phenomena of meanings. So doing, juxtology recognizes the ontology of error and its necessity: we humans come to the truth only by wandering."
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