{"id":45824,"date":"2019-10-04T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=45824"},"modified":"2019-10-11T17:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T16:31:46","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-enthymetic-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/10\/04\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-enthymetic-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Enthymetic errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32935\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/09\/20\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-thyme-and-thymus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I reported <\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/09\/27\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-thymoleptic-thymopathies\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">last week<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, of about 60 words listed in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) beginning with thym-, only two refer to the mind, thymoleptic and thymopathy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, there are several words in which the mind is indicated by -thym- as an infix or by the suffix -thymia or -thymy and derivatives such as -thymic and -thymically (Table). In all of these words, the -thym- element derives from the Greek word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u03cc\u03c2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, mind, and in each case the derivative reflects some state of mind, be it related to cheerfulness, depression, desire, or the effects of emotions. There is, however, an exception, enthymeme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45828\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/10\/aronson_enthymetic_again.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/10\/aronson_enthymetic_again.jpg 631w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/10\/aronson_enthymetic_again-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Greek verb <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u1f10<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u03bd\u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u1fd6<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">derived from the prefix <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u1f10<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u03bd, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u03cc\u03c2<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the mind, meant to think, consider, or infer. A related noun, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u1f10<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u03bd\u03b8\u03cd\u03bc\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, meant thought or an argument or piece of reasoning; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/aristotle-rhetoric\/#enthymeme\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aristotle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> regarded an enthymeme as a type of dialectical argument, a \u201cbody of persuasion\u201d, i.e. its main constituent, specifically a rhetorical trope drawn from premises that were only probable, not proven. A syllogism typically has two premises, major and minor, and a conclusion based on them. An enthymeme typically has only one premise. Aristotle subdivided enthymemes into two types: those based on probabilities and those based on signs. The acceptability of the conclusion depends on acceptance of the premise\u2014either that something is sufficiently likely to happen or that the signs really exist. For example:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Premise: He has a fever. Conclusion: He is ill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acceptance of the existence of the sign (the fever) implies the conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Latin, the word became enthymema, a thought or concept. Cicero used it to mean an antithesis ending a piece of rhetoric, giving as an example, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">De Topica<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cCan you fear this man, and not fear that one?\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEnthymeme\u201d then entered English in the early 16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century, when logicians used it to mean a deductive argument having a proposition that is not explicitly stated, and specifically a syllogism with an unstated premise. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gives an example: the syllogism \u201cAll cats are mammals; therefore all lions are mammals\u201d, is an enthymeme, because the minor premise, \u201cAll lions are cats\u201d is unstated, being implicitly true. One 16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century logician, Abraham Fraunce, writing in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawiers Logike<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1588), was not impressed: \u201cAn enthymeme is nothing but a contracted syllogism\u201d. It was also later suggested that in Descartes\u2019 famous enthymeme \u201cI think therefore I am\u201d the missing minor premise was \u201cthinking exists\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enthymemes work when the missing premise is correct. However, when the premise is incorrect the conclusion will be wrong. Medical errors sometimes occur because a premise is mistakenly assumed to be correct. Here is an example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major premise: People with ventricular extra beats after a myocardial infarction have an increased risk of sudden cardiac death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conclusion: Use of the antiarrhythmic drug flecainide will reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The major premise is correct, but the conclusion is wrong. The missing minor premise may not be obvious:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minor premise: An antiarrhythmic drug will suppress serious extra beats without any adverse effects of its own, thereby reducing mortality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is the missing minor premise, which turns out to be unpredictably misguided, that leads to the false conclusion. In the placebo-controlled Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/1900101\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAST<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) both flecainide and encainide increased mortality in people with ventricular extra beats after a myocardial infarction. Proarrhythmic effects of antiarrhythmic drugs are now well-known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The error was to believe, as cardiologists at first did, that the minor premise, which assumed an unproven underlying mechanism, was true, rather than a hypothesis in need of testing. It is likely that before it was tested many people died because of the use of antiarrhythmic drugs in this way, which has been estimated to have led to more deaths than among US soldiers killed in wars such as those in Korea or Vietnam. The story has been told by Thomas J Moore in his book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/06\/14\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-biomarkers-advantages-and-disadvantages\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deadly Medicine<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong>\u00a0is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford&#8217;s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong> None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported last week, of about 60 words listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) beginning with thym-, only two refer to the mind, thymoleptic and thymopathy. 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