Enthymemes are distinguished from other arguments by the fact they don't hold up by themselves, but are instead accepted on the basis of identification with a topos -this doesn't include arguments that are accepted despite being unsupported.
the terms enthymeme and topos will continue to be used here: this is partly for convenience, but also because once the context indicates that an enthymemetic argument is being made (such as a recognisable sugges-tion+motivation pattern like "Let's go left here, it's a shortcut"), an unsupported 'enthymeme', once accepted, can be used to establish a potential new topos (Breitholtz, 2015).