The Enthymeme Kimberly Tucker Canadian Auto Workers Union

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and thwarted Franklin Pierce's attempt at a meeting of the ex-Presidents to undermine Lincoln

rendering ineffective the traditional union strategies of pressuring the state for reform

The Enthymeme Kimberly Tucker Canadian Auto Workers UnionCentral to rhetorical theory, the enthymeme is most often defined as a truncated syllogism. Suppressing a premise that the audience already knows, this rhetorical device relies on the audience to fill in the missing information, thereby making the argument more persuasive. James Fredal argues that this view of the enthymeme is wrong. Presenting a new exegesis of Aristotle and classic texts of Attic oratory, Fredal shows that the standard reading of