argumentum

American  

[ahr-gyuh-men-tuhm] / ˌɑr gyəˈmɛn təm /

noun

plural

argumenta

1. argument.

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Etymology

Origin of argumentum

From Latin

Example Sentences

But as a professor of communication, I observe that one of the most common errors people make in daily conversation is to appeal to antiquity – what scholars call the “argumentum ad antiquitatem” fallacy – which says that something is good simply because it is old, and because it has always been done this way.

From Salon

Apostrophe** or aporia*** or comprobatio* or argumentum ad populumM serve to put the speaker in a given relation with ‘Evading an issue by digression. You may have noticed it happening on the news. “

From Literature

Bringing up party rallies and private security forces may be condemned as an inadmissible argumentum ad Hitlerum, but it is also hardly grounds for complacency given the violent imagery of Trump’s rhetoric.

From Salon

Faced with a presidential candidate whose sole idea of logic is an argumentum ad baculum – an aggressive and illegitimate reliance upon threats and intimidation – she simply recognized the higher human obligation to speak while she still could.

From US News

He makes an argumentum ad temperantiam on the president’s behalf, noting that even as critics on the right fault him for misrepresenting the threat, critics on the right object to his use of drone strikes against faraway terrorists.

From The Wall Street Journal