Buridan's own examples of non-substitutionally-valid consequences, such as 'A man runs, therefore an animal runs', are reducible to enthymemes with suppressed logical or metaphysicalpremises.
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An argument form where you can't swap out words for other words without breaking the logic. For example, 'A man runs, therefore an animal runs' only works because 'man' specifically means a type of animal—you couldn't replace 'animal' with just any other word and keep it true.
Suppressed(as used in psychology and philosophy of action)
Pushed down or kept from coming to the surface of your conscious mind, even though it's still there.
consequence(Buridan's medieval logic)
A logical relation with necessary truth-preservation (TP) as its fundamental component
enthymeme(Used to describe Xia Ge's argument, which relies on an unstated law about the permanence of existence across time.)
An argument in which one or more premises are left implicit (hidden), requiring the audience to supply the unstated assumption.