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* rhetoric is persuasion | * rhetoric is persuasion | ||
* | ** "persuasion" = act of inducing belief or conviction by appeals to reason, not force | ||
*** conviction induced by fear, threats, authority or force are not "persuasion" | |||
*** persuasion is from PIE ''*swād-'' for "sweet" | |||
**** thus persuasion is "sweet talk" not force | |||
* rhetoric is to persuade for good purpose | |||
* from Stephen Ziliak, Encylopedia of Social Science, p 237 "Rhetoric" entry: | * from Stephen Ziliak, Encylopedia of Social Science, p 237 "Rhetoric" entry: | ||