Rhetoric is useful because things that are true and things that are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites, so that if the decisions of judges are not what they out to be, the defeat must be due to the speakers themselves…
- Aristotle "Rhetoric"
When a speaker selects and puts forward the premises that are to serve as foundation for his argument, he relies on his hearers’ adherence to the propositions from which he will start.
- Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca “The New Rhetoric”
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