argumentum
/ahr-gyuh-men-tuhm/US // ˌɑr gyəˈmɛn təm //
论据,争论,论点,论证
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural ar·gu·men·ta [ahr-gyuh-men-tuh]. /ˌɑr gyəˈmɛn tə/.
- : argument.
Examples
It was a masterful bit of hypocritical eloquence, of argumentum ad hominem; but it was made to simple and illiterate hearers.
It was not to this, however, that he directed his objection: the argumentum ad hominem came more easily to him.
But it was the Argumentum ad hominem; and if my uncle Toby was not very expert at it, you may think, he might not care to use it.
In a case like this the argumentum ad hominem, though a perfectly fair one, is a perfectly useless one.
It is incomprehensible; or, as St. Paul says, the argumentum non apparentium.
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