The enthymeme in perspective

1 May 1984

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech

Vol. 70 (2) , 168-187
https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638409383687

Abstract

A close examination of the meanings of “enthymeme” in Ancient and Byzantine rhetoric shows that the term was far from unambiguous. A survey of its various meanings provides some clues as to how rhetorical theory, as it was and as it is today, might be cast in a different light.

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