ENTHYMEME
ENTHYMEME. The Logical ENTHYMEME is an incomplete and cut-short mode of drawing a conclusion, without an express proposition or assumption [or, a concealed Syllogism, i.e. such a one as requires one or other premiss to be understood]. It is a kind of compendious way of drawing a conclusion, and can easily be reduced to the mode (form) of a full and perfect Syllogism. ERNESTI Initia doctr. Solid. P. ii. Dialect. ch. 4, 78 [Ed. v. p. 344].
A rhetorical ENTHYMEME has two forms, the one of which is from the consequents, the other from the contraries, which alone some of the ancients call an ENTHYMEME. That from the consequents is, that which proposes an argument (subject), and immediately subjoins to it its confirmation – -. That from contraries is, when an argument (subject) is confirmed from its contrary. ERNESTI L. c. In. Rh. P. i. Sect. i. ch. x. 123, with which comp. 155.-Gal 3:21; see Gnom.-2Th 3:10, , .-Heb 12:8; 1Jn 5:1. See Gnom. on passages quoted. In a more general signification, the appellation ENTHYMEME is used for a simple enunciation, in the Gnomon on Rom 6:17, Ye were the servants of sin, but now ye have become obedient to righteousness.
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Enthymeme
(Gr. enthymema) In Aristotle’s logic a rhetorical syllogism, usually consisting of probable premisses, and used for persuasion as distinct from instruction. In later logic a syllogism of which one premiss or the conclusion is not explicitly stated. — G.R.M.