argumentum
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Origin of argumentum
From Latin
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Mrs. Clinton relies awfully heavily on what we hereby name the argumentum ad dubyam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2015
The implicit message with both was: argumentum ad populum.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2011
There is no doubt that the original Harry Potter fad benefited from the argumentum ad populum phenomena: children are even more prone to it than adults.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2011
The problem wasn’t simply the producer’s argumentum ad ignorantiam.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2010
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 "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
M. Génin also gives specimens of the bishop's bombast, observing maliciously: "Si Briçonnet argumenta en pareil style aux conciles de Pise et du Latran, il dut embarrasser beaucoup ses adversaires."
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn
The next two letters, also to the editor of Bell's Life in London, do not profess to argue the question, but are merely argumenta ad hominum.
From The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Edge, Frederick Milnes
In the later period such attachments took the form of prefixed argumenta, i. e. prefatory descriptions of author and contents, and affixed subscriptions, devoted to a similar purpose.
From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
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