argumentum ad passiones

短语

发音

US
其它 /aɹ.ɡuːˈmen.tum ad pas.siˈoː.neːs/
其它 /aɹ.ɡuːˈmen.tũ ad pas.siˈoː.neːs/
UK /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntəm æd pæsɪˈəʊniːz/

词形变化

argumenta ad passiones 复数 argumenta ad passiones

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An appeal or argument intended to convince the listener(s) by agitating the emotions, rather than by appealing to sober judgment.

    Divide your sentence into three distinct members, each member commencing with the same words, but terminating with words conveying different ideas. […] Sometimes three or more kindred words may have the same happy effect, in which case we should have a view […] to alliteration. […] This mode may be denominated argumentum ad passiones.

    The speaker uses the argumentum ad hominem by comparing his race with the Chosen People, an argumentum ad fidem in exploiting for the purposes of his similitude their belief in the miraculous origin of the tables of the law, and an argumentum ad passiones in his description of the browbeating of a small inspired race by the arrogant spokesman of a mighty empire.

词源

Latin: argūmentum (“argument”, “proof”) + ad (“to”, “toward”) + passiōnēs (accusative plural of passio, “suffering”, “passion”) ≈ “appeal to the passions”

来源：wiktionary