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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">I wish to
ask if anyone can help me to find documentation on the web that contains special
paragraphs about enthymemes. I am doing a paper with the title "The Use of
Enthymemes in Advertising" and I cannot find a definition to be satisfactory.
This happens because a lot of authors have changed the definition of Aristotle
and everybody seems to be giving a sort of definition of their own. This
wouldn't be such a bad thing after all, but some of them define the enthymeme as
"arguments that have one or more unstated premises or conclusion, but that have
those premises (or conclusion) implied in the argument”. The other definitions
link enthymemes to plausibility, to common knowledge or to something else, so, I
cannot be cleared upon this matter. I ask you for documentation because I
searched for books or manuals but I couldn’t find anything. Romanian manuals
don’t discuss this subject. If you can’t give me documentation, maybe you can
work on a definition.</P>
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