Argumentum Definition

ärgyə-mĕntəm
argumenta
noun
An argument, demonstration, or appeal to reason.
American Heritage
An argument.
Webster's New World

(chiefly formal, in law, logic, etc.) Used in numerous Latin phrases (occasionally alone) in the sense of “appeal” or “argument”.

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Other Word Forms of Argumentum

Noun

Singular:
argumentum
Plural:
argumenta

Origin of Argumentum

  • Latin argūmentum argument

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Latin argūmentum.

    From Wiktionary

Argumentum Sentence Examples

  • These distinctions, he insists, have an objective reality, The cognizable by reason no less than the relations of Cambridge space or number; and he endeavours to refute moralists, Hobbism - which he treats as a " novantique philo- C d sophy," a mere revival of the relativism of Protagoras - chiefly by the following argumentum ad hominem.

  • You cannot beat a good argumentum ad hominem now, can you?

  • The fallacy argumentum ad hominem (abusive) supported by unsubstantiated assertions.

  • More particularly "argument" means a synopsis of the contents of a book, the outline of a novel, play, &c. In logic it is used for the middle term in a syllogism, and for many species of fallacies, such as the argumentum ad hominem, ad baculum, &c. '(see' Fallacy).

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