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argumenta ad passiones

argumenta ad passiones is the plural of argumentum ad passiones.

Meaning of argumentum ad passiones

Noun

argumentum ad passiones (plural argumenta ad passiones)

  1. (rhetoric) An appeal or argument intended to convince the listener(s) by agitating the emotions, rather than by appealing to sober judgment.
    • When an argument is borrowed from any topics which are ſuited to engage the inclinations and paſſions of the hearers on the ſide of the ſpeaker, rather than to convince the judgment, this is argumentum ad paſſiones, an addreſs to the paſſions; or if it be made publicly, it is called ad populum, or...1724, Isaac Watts, “Logick: or, The Right Uſe of Reaſon”, in Works, publiſhed by himſelf, V (1753), page 154

Questions about argumenta ad passiones

What is argumenta ad passiones the plural of?
Argumenta ad passiones is the plural of argumentum ad passiones.

Words near argumenta ad passiones in the dictionary

  1. argumenta ad crumenam
  2. argumenta ad feminam
  3. argumenta ad fidem
  4. argumenta ad hominem
  5. argumenta ad Lazarum
  6. argumenta ad passiones
  7. argumenta ad populum
  8. argumenta ad verecundiam
  9. argumentable
  10. argumental
  11. argumentality

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