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Sometimes an argument establishing a wholly irrelevant conclusion is substituted for an argumentum ad rem.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
His plea or pretence, that he was sheltered by the superior grossness of Ariosto and La Fontaine, of Prior and of Fielding, is nihil ad rem, if it is not insincere.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
I might write would seem as nihil ad rem, as if I were writing of an island in the Pacific.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
Sed ego adulescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa advorsa fuere.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
Sed vt ad rem: De Religione equidem nostra, quæ qualiseu fuerit, cum Ethnicismus primùm fugari coepit, nihil magnificè diceret possumus: quemadmodum nec alia Septentrionis Regna vicina, vti existimo, de suis fidei initijs.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
