Citations:enthymeme


 * 2007 - Klamer, McCloskey and Ziliak, “Is There Life after Samuelson’s Economics? Changing the Textbooks” by Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, and Stephen Ziliak, Post-Autistic Economics Review May 2007, 42(18): p. 6 
 * Aristotle noted that most arguments take the form of an “enthymeme” ("EN-thu-miem"), an incomplete or not-quite-air-tight syllogism. “Free trade is good” or “Taxes reduce output” are enthymemes, not-syllogistic arguments. The average French economist may find such arguments 45 percent true, the average American economist 80 percent true. Arguing an enthymeme is successful when the economist defends the 45 or 80 percent true as “true enough.” Economics, like other sciences, works in approximations.