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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Peter Adamson

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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

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