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What is an argumentum?

What is an argumentum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (logic) Used in numerous Latin phrases (and occasionally alone) in the sense of “appeal” or “argument”.
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This is an argumentum ad scholam, and pushes too far the demand for consistency.
High on the list of fallacious tricks of rhetoric is one called argumentum ad populum, meaning an argument appealing to popular passions.
In a case like this the argumentum ad hominem, though a perfectly fair one, is a perfectly useless one.
It is a venue where debate is respected and seldom degenerates into argumentum ad hominem.
It was evident that the argumentum ad hominem did not please him.
The latter had nothing better to appeal to than that notoriously feeble resource, the argumentum ad hominem.

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