POPULISMUS  引眾證人法

RATIOCINATIO in which popular consensus is adduces as evidence for the truth of what one is saying.

Appeal to the judgment or experience of many or of general consensus.

Traditionally called APODIXIS!

Hypernym
  • RATIOCINATIOSPEECH ACT of developing one's points of view through rational reflection and reasoned argument.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Miriam 97 "Human testimony may be that of many or of one. The figure apodixis experience of many. ... The figure martyria, on the other hand, confirms a question by one's own experience."

REF: Not in Lausberg. Renaissance technical term.

Greek/Latin: Current.

Ancient Chinese: Surprisingly rare. One needs to explain why.

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