ad rem
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Sometimes an argument establishing a wholly irrelevant conclusion is substituted for an argumentum ad rem.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
In writing, he thinks of nothing but his idea and the person whom he addresses: ad rem et ad hominem.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
He urged that negatives ad rem should be taken most carefully, and that, like the picture I showed him, they should be full of half-tone and detail, and yet have plenty of vigor.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various
His plea or pretence, that he was sheltered by the superior grossness of Ariosto and La Fontaine, of Prior and of Fielding, is nihil ad rem, if it is not insincere.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
This is a trick which ought to be one of the first; it is, at bottom, an expedient by which an argumentum ad hominem is put forward as an argumentum ad rem.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
