If the former interpretation is true, then Aristotle concedes in the very definition of the enthymeme that some enthymemes are not deductive. |
In an enthymeme, great care 132 should be taken with the suppressed premise. |
It is a common way of hiding a weak point to cover it in the suppressed premise of an enthymeme. |
There is a certain variety in the use of the word enthymeme among logicians. |
Scholars have also tended to speak about the enthymeme either in terms of more formal, syllogistic argument schemes or more broadly as an informal type of rhetorical appeal. |
But if the evidence be deductive, it will probably consist of an enthymeme, or of several enthymemes one depending on another. |