extremes

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Aristotle observed that it was easier for demagogues than statesmen to use enthymemes — proofs or analogies dependent on collective past experience — because they shared more in common with the people they were addressing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2019

These enthymemes are a rhetorical device at the heart of a persuasive speaking style that has helped catapult the billionaire to the White House.

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2016

Syllogisms and enthymemes can be understood as units of thought—that is, ways of articulating the relationships between ideas.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Go to then, let's try how demonstrable this is; not by enthymemes or the imperfect syllogisms of the Stoics, but by plain, downright, and ordinary examples.

From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John

The examples illustrate also what he says in his Rhetoric as to the advantages of enthymemes.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William