Argument
Enthymeme
Overview
type of rhetorical deductive argument
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From this are derived those results of the rhetoricians drawn from contraries, which they call enthymemes. Not that every sentence may not be legitimately called an enthymeme; but, as Homer on account of his preeminence has appropriated the general name of poet to himself as his own among all the Greeks; so, though every sentence is an enthymeme, still, because that which is made up of contraries appears the most…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
States what Enthymeme is; names Enthymeme several times.
In like manner too rhetoricians persuade, either through examples (which amounts to induction), or through enthymemes (which amounts to syllogism).
Aristotle, The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle
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Of course all know what the real meaning is, and pique themselves upon that knowledge. But you yourself must come forward disguised, in the form of an enthymeme. Be sure and leave behind you all those prosyllogisms and premisses, by which you used to drag us wearily up the long climax, for everyone knows how utterly useless they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature
Names Enthymeme.
Philosophers who discussed Enthymeme
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Place in the tradition
Part of Dramatism.