enthymeme

/en-thuh-meem/US // ˈɛn θəˌmim //UK // (ˈɛnθɪˌmiːm) //

颂词,谜语,颂歌,颂扬词

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Logic.
- : a syllogism or other argument in which a premise or the conclusion is unexpressed.

It is a common way of hiding a weak point to cover it in the suppressed premise of an enthymeme.
Aristotle used Enthymeme in the wider sense of an elliptically expressed argument.
One form of enthymeme is so common in modern rhetoric as to deserve a distinctive name.
In the bald, simple forms here set down, the syllogism and enthymeme are hardly suited to delivery in speeches.
Logic proceeds by induction and syllogism, rhetoric by the enthymeme, and poetic by the example.