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The rabbit hole is deep for this one. There are gems on the wiki page for Enthymemes [0]

> In the examples, 'having a cough' and 'having a child' are signs of illness and giving birth respectively. In both cases the enthymeme is only probably true because there are other sources of coughs and children besides pathogens and parturition respectively

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthymeme




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