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**** thus persuasion is "sweet talk" not force | **** thus persuasion is "sweet talk" not force | ||
* rhetoric is to persuade for good purpose | * rhetoric is to persuade for good purpose | ||
* | * Social Scientist Stephen Ziliak notes: | ||
** rhetoric is "'''both act and perception'''" and "'''judges and is judged'''" | |||
*** i.e., rhetoric goes both ways | |||
** from Ziliak's entyr in the "Encyclopedia of Social Science," p 237 "Rhetoric" entry: | |||
Rhetoric is employed in both act and perception, in private thought and public communication. It is a means of communication as well as a theory for understanding and criticizing itself and the alternative means of communication. | Rhetoric is employed in both act and perception, in private thought and public communication. It is a means of communication as well as a theory for understanding and criticizing itself and the alternative means of communication. | ||
Centrally speaking, the rhetoric of the social sciences is the study and practice of argumentation and proof making, constrained only by the available means of persuasion. As such, rhetoric judges and is judged, it moves and is moved. | Centrally speaking, the rhetoric of the social sciences is the study and practice of argumentation and proof making, constrained only by the available means of persuasion. As such, rhetoric judges and is judged, it moves and is moved. | ||
* as our student, Tiago, observes, "So Rhetoric is standup comedy" | |||
** exactly! | |||
[[Category:Rhetoric]] | [[Category:Rhetoric]] | ||
[[Category:Language Arts]] | [[Category:Language Arts]] | ||
[[Category:Philosophy]] | [[Category:Philosophy]] | ||