“The ancient Greeks called phrases like this an ‘enthymeme’ or an argument completed by the audience,” Murphy said. “If ...

In his seminal work, The Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle presents two key rhetorical devices for constructing arguments: the syllogism and the enthymeme. A syllogism is a form of deductive reasoning ...

15-30. (2007) "Aristotle's Enthymeme, Thymos, and Plato" in Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric, above, pp. 53-64. (2007) "Introduction," in Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric, above, pp. 1-18. (2007) ...

"The ancient Greeks called phrases like this an ‘enthymeme’ or an argument completed by the audience," Murphy said. "If speakers can create participation, if we as the audience fill in parts ...