Definition of "argumentum" []

• Logic An argument, demonstration, or appeal to reason. (noun)

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• "Vries, "than that, on the one hand, everything which exists is conceived by or under some attribute or other; that the more reality, therefore, a being or thing has, the more attributes must be assigned to it;" "and conversely," (and this he calls his argumentum palmarium in proof of the existence of God,) "the more attributes I assign to a thing, the more I am forced to conceive it as existing.""
• "First of all, Fake-Latin Name Person, the terms argumentum ad hominem and insult are orthogonal to each other."
• "Ed Brayton has been trying to enter the phrase argumentum ad labelum into the vocabulary."