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What does enthymeme mean?

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Noun
  1. A by and large statement, a maxim, a less-than-100% argument.
  2. (logic) A syllogism with a required but unstated assumption.
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Aristotle used Enthymeme in the wider sense of an elliptically expressed argument.
But if the evidence be deductive, it will probably consist of an enthymeme, or of several enthymemes one depending on another.
One form of enthymeme is so common in modern rhetoric as to deserve a distinctive name.
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.
In an enthymeme, great care 132 should be taken with the suppressed premise.
The fallacious enthymeme pretends to include a valid deduction, while it actually rests on a fallacious inference.

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