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book has two rather large rhetorical purposes
the one hand,
other hand,
Though they may or may not realize it, they are defending, not rhetoric, but sophistry.
“What makes one a sophist is not the faculty but the moral purpose”
Aristotle believes that rhetoric and sophistry are distinct: rhetoric is persuasion aimed at the truth; sophistry is persuasion aimed only at the appearance of truth.
rhetoric vs sophistry
so, it can then free others. Indeed, in freeing others, one frees oneself.
The Greek for “faculty” is dunamis, “power or capacity”; dunamis is the root of the English word “dynamism.”
Rhetoric is the power or capacity of the mind to discover, the actualization of a human intellectual potential that, when actualized, releases energy.
Definition of rhetoric
philosophy discovers truth; rhetoric, the means of convincing an audience of that truth.
logos—
logos.
First,
Second,
Third,
Fourth,
That pleasure is educational, the pleasure of experiencing a free mind releasing the energy of logos.
invention,
organization,
and s...
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In short, invention is what you argue; organization, in what order you argue...
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Richard Weaver,
soul-leading
soul-leading
two ways
syllogisms of logic
the topics of in...
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Definitions are not a-rhetorical, though; they are stipulative. Unlike dictionary definitions, which explain how a word is used, stipulative definitions argue that a word ought to mean what the rhetor
