Enthymeme

I call the enthymeme a rhetorical syllogism, and the example a rhetorical induction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An enthymeme is an argument that’s built on major premise, minor premise, and conclusion, but the speaker/writer leaves out one of the premises because it’s assumed that everyone understands and agrees with that premise. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The example is an induction, the enthymeme is a syllogism, and the apparent enthymeme is an apparent syllogism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The enthymeme is a sort of syllogism, and the consideration of syllogisms of all kinds, without distinction, is the business of dialectic, either of dialectic as a whole or of one of its branches. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Aristotle calls the enthymeme the “body of persuasion,” implying that everything else is only an addition or accident to the core of the persuasive process. ❋ Rapp, Christof (2002)

Every kind of syllogism is composed of propositions, and the enthymeme is a particular kind of syllogism composed of the aforesaid propositions. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

Depreciation are one kind of enthymeme, viz. the kind used to show that a thing is great or small; just as there are other kinds used to show that a thing is good or bad, just or unjust, and anything else of the sort. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

The enthymeme must consist of few propositions, fewer often than those which make up the normal syllogism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It follows plainly, therefore, that he who is best able to see how and from what elements a syllogism is produced will also be best skilled in the enthymeme, when he has further learnt what its subject-matter is and in what respects it differs from the syllogism of strict logic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The enthymeme here might do well to exclude the conclusion and let the audience infer it if the goal of the argument were to convince the audience that Susan speaks eloquently. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Statements may be strategically excluded in an enthymeme because they are too obvious or because revealing them might damage the force of the argument. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The syllogism above would be rendered an enthymeme simply by maintaining that "Michael is mortal because he's human" (leaving out the major premise). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The enthymeme and the example must, then, deal with what is in the main contingent, the example being an induction, and the enthymeme a syllogism, about such matters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The orator's demonstration is an enthymeme, and this is, in general, the most effective of the modes of persuasion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He is taking issue with the now-explicitly articulated premise #1 of your earlier enthymeme. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The rhetorician, on the other hand, uses not only the syllogism, but also the enthymeme (incomplete syllogism), epicheireme (a kind of extended reasoning) and example. ❋ Nauta, Lodi (2009)