Help with a term...entae or in tae or en tae .....

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It was used in the phrase "that was my entae in assuming that." I'm guessing that means fault or mistake but how the heck do you spell it?? Help PLEASE!!!

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Boy that's tough. The only thing I can come up with is enthymema, which broadly just means "thought" or "idea", and which more technically refers to a particular sort of syllogism-- often unsound.

I admit is seems far-fetched that there is anyone alive today so immersed in Aristotelian logic that he casually refers to enthymemata as "enthys". Could you have missed the "mema" part?

Enthymema was originally Greek, though it was early adopted into Latin.
What makes you think that the expression you heard was Latin?
 
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