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Topics
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Aristotle's Topics is a treatise on dialectic, exploring methods of argumentation and debate, focusing on finding arguments that will solicit agreement from an interlocutor or audience.
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Mentioned by Peter Adamson as the author of 'Topics' and 'Rhetoric', which Agricola drew upon in his work.
HoP 373 - Lords of Language - Northern Humanism
Alongside sophistical arguments, Aristotle supposedly saw rhetorical speeches, dialectical arguments, and even tragedies as inferior ways to prove a point, hence his treatises Rhetoric, Topics, and Poetics.
HoP 311 - The Elements of Style - Rhetoric in Byzantium
