Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An argument, demonstration, or appeal to reason.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An argument.
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- noun logic, etc. Used in numerous Latin phrases (and occasionally alone) in the sense of “
appeal ” or “argument ”.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vries, "than that, on the one hand, everything which exists is conceived by or under some attribute or other; that the more reality, therefore, a being or thing has, the more attributes must be assigned to it;" "and conversely," (and this he calls his argumentum palmarium in proof of the existence of God,) "the more attributes I assign to a thing, the more I am forced to conceive it as existing."
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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First of all, Fake-Latin Name Person, the terms argumentum ad hominem and insult are orthogonal to each other.
Pharyngula 2009
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Ed Brayton has been trying to enter the phrase argumentum ad labelum into the vocabulary.
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The phrase argumentum ad verecundiam literally means the means ‘the argument from modesty’, and it was John Locke who evidently first used this phrase to refer to a kind of error or deceptive tactic that can be used by one person in discussion with another …
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This is the fallacy called argumentum ad numeram: the idea that something is true because great numbers believe it.
WEATHER is not the same thing as CLIMATE Glenda Larke 2010
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This is the fallacy called argumentum ad numeram: the idea that something is true because great numbers believe it.
Archive 2010-06-01 Glenda Larke 2010
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This is the fallacy called argumentum ad numeram: the idea that something is true because great numbers believe it.
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This is the fallacy called argumentum ad numeram: the idea that something is true because great numbers believe it.
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In any case, the wire service commits a logical fallacy known as the argumentum ad ignoratiam, or the appeal to ignorance.
Tea and Mockery James Taranto 2010
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The argument from silence also called argumentum a silentio in Latin is that the silence of a speaker or writer about X...
EconLog: Information Goods, Intellectual Property Archives 2009
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