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A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, "That's just rhetoric!" But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ rhetoric successfully can enable the... read more
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<1.1> "Rhetoric" is a term of abuse, of course: Immediately after someone has distorted the truth during an interview on television, for example, the journalist will comment, "We know that was just rhetoric."
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- Scott F. Crider (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 808.4
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