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Some call the enthymeme a rhetorical syllogism, while
others regard it as a part of the syllogism, because
whereas the latter always has its premises and
conclusion and effects its proof by the employment
of all its parts, the ethymeme is content to let its
proof be understood without explicit statement.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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