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top·ic [ tóppik ] (plural top·ics)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. subject: something dealt with in a text or in discussion

2. arguments used in reasoning: a class of arguments used as a source of proofs in formal reasoning

[15th century. <Topics, title of Aristotle's treatise on rhetorical commonplaces < Latin Topica< Greek topos "place"]

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