Ad captandum
A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor. | ||||
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Ad captandum Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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ad captandum
\ad cap*tan"dum\ (&?;). [l., for catching.] a phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
ad captandum
\ad cap*tan"dum\ (&?;). [l., for catching.] a phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
Ad captandum Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Ad captandum
In rhetoric an argument ad captandum, "for capturing" the gullibility of the naïve among the listeners or readers, is an unsound, specious argument, a kind of seductive casuistry. The longer form of the term is ad captandum vulgus (Latin, 'to win over the crowd'). The ad captandum argument may be painfully vivid in sound bites from politicians on TV news programs. Like most perceptions of logical transgressions, the ad captandum assessment may not be neutral and at the same time may be quite accurate.
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