Does the traditional treatment of enthymemes rest on a mistake?

Argumentation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-37

  Hitchcock, David ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consequence; Enthymematic consequence; Logical consequence; Nthymeme; Unstated premiss

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649084421     PISSN: 0920427X     EISSN: 15728374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007738519694     Document Type: Article

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