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enthymeme
[ en-thuh-meem ]
noun
, Logic.
- a syllogism or other argument in which a premise or the conclusion is unexpressed.
enthymeme
/ ˈɛnθɪˌmiːm /
noun
- an incomplete syllogism, in which one or more premises are unexpressed as their truth is considered to be self-evident
- any argument some of whose premises are omitted as obvious
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Derived Forms
- ˌenthymeˈmatic, adjective
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Other Words From
- en·thy·me·mat·ic [en-th, uh, -mee-, mat, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of enthymeme1
1580–90; < Latin enthȳmēma < Greek enthȳ́mēma thought, argument, equivalent to enthȳmē-, variant stem of enthȳmeîsthai to ponder ( en- en- 2 + -thȳmeîsthai verbal derivative of thȳmós spirit, thought) + -ma noun suffix of result
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Word History and Origins
Origin of enthymeme1
C16: via Latin from Greek enthumēma, from enthumeisthai to infer (literally: to have in the mind), from en- ² + thumos mind
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Example Sentences
It is a common way of hiding a weak point to cover it in the suppressed premise of an enthymeme.
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Aristotle used Enthymeme in the wider sense of an elliptically expressed argument.
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One form of enthymeme is so common in modern rhetoric as to deserve a distinctive name.
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In the bald, simple forms here set down, the syllogism and enthymeme are hardly suited to delivery in speeches.
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Logic proceeds by induction and syllogism, rhetoric by the enthymeme, and poetic by the example.
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