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Definition of Enthymemes
1. enthymeme [n] - See also: enthymeme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enthymemes
Literary usage of Enthymemes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"enthymemes. —The term ' enthymeme' seems to have been used by Aristotle for an
argument from ... enthymemes are sometimes said to be of the first, second, ..."
2. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"enthymemes. An Enthymeme is a syllogism abridged in expression by the omission
of one of the constituent propositions. The most common form in which ..."
3. Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto (1894)
"CHAPTER V. enthymemes. THERE is a certain variety in the use of the word Enthymeme
... Hamilton divides enthymemes into three classes according as it is the ..."
4. A New Translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric: With an Introduction and Appendix by Aristotle (1823)
"—Examples and enthymemes.— Likelihoods, Signs, and Tests. ... Oaths — with the
Propositions or enthymemes, relative to all these ..."
5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1840)
"The proofs themselves are either examples, or enthymemes. A deliberative oration,
because it is of things to come, requireth rather examples than enthymemes ..."
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