MEANING
An argument in which a premise or inferential step is left unstated for the audience to supply.
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- rhetorical enthymeme
- unstated premise
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The speech’s enthymeme depended on a shared belief about duty.
She reconstructed the missing premise of the enthymeme.
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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Singular enthymeme; plural enthymemes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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