# Inventio
- __**Inventio**__, one of the five canons of rhetoric, is the method used for the __discovery of arguments__ in Western [rhetoric](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric) and comes from the [Latin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin) word, meaning "invention" or "discovery". __Inventio__ is the central, indispensable canon of rhetoric, and traditionally means a systematic search for [arguments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument).[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventio#cite_note-Glenn2008-1):151–156