ad rem
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ad rem
< Latin: literally, to the matter
Example Sentences
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To speak ad rem, who is free from passion?
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
He urged that negatives ad rem should be taken most carefully, and that, like the picture I showed him, they should be full of half-tone and detail, and yet have plenty of vigor.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various
I might write would seem as nihil ad rem, as if I were writing of an island in the Pacific.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Sometimes an argument establishing a wholly irrelevant conclusion is substituted for an argumentum ad rem.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
This is a trick which ought to be one of the first; it is, at bottom, an expedient by which an argumentum ad hominem is put forward as an argumentum ad rem.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
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