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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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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.

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