argumentum
Americannoun
plural
argumentaEtymology
Origin of argumentum
From Latin
Example Sentences
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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
Instead he went for the argumentum ad populum:
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 17, 2015
The implicit message with both was: argumentum ad populum.
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
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