Associations to the word «Argumentum»

ARGUMENTUM, noun. (chiefly formal) (in legal) (logic) (etc.) Used in numerous Latin phrases (and occasionally alone) in the sense of “appeal” or “argument”.

ARGUMENTUM AD BACULUM, noun. (logical fallacy) The use or threat of force to coerce acceptance of an argument.

ARGUMENTUM AD CONSEQUENTIAM, noun. (logical fallacy) A logical fallacy in which a statement is determined to be true or false based on whether it would be pleasant or desirable, rather than based on reality.

ARGUMENTUM AD CRUMENAM, noun. (logical fallacy) A logical fallacy of concluding that a proposition is correct because the one advancing it is rich.

ARGUMENTUM AD DICTIONARIUM, noun. (logical fallacy) An argument citing a dictionary definition as the proper and correct usage, and claiming that an excluded usage must be incorrect.

ARGUMENTUM AD FIDEM, noun. (logical fallacy) A fallacious argument that asserts the truth of a proposition by an appeal to pious testimony or religious revelation.

ARGUMENTUM AD LAZARUM, noun. (logical fallacy) An appeal to poverty; the logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the speaker is poor.

ARGUMENTUM AD NAUSEAM, noun. (logical fallacy) The false proof of a statement by (prolonged) repetition, possibly by different people.

ARGUMENTUM AD NUMERUM, noun. (logical fallacy) argumentum ad populum.

ARGUMENTUM AD PASSIONES, noun. (logical fallacy) An appeal or argument intended to convince the listener(s) by agitating the emotions, rather than by appealing to sober judgment.

ARGUMENTUM AD POPULUM, noun. (logical fallacy) A fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges that “if many believe so, it is so”.

ARGUMENTUM AD VERECUNDIAM, noun. (logical fallacy) An argument from authority, or an appeal to authority.