
Ep. 247: Aristotle on Rhetoric and Emotions (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Do You Have to Give the Whole Anthememe or Not?
Anthememes are arguing from likelihoods by way of signs or examples, rather than necessary inferences. This is the kind of reasoning which is going to be common in public discourse right because we are talking about human concerns and about what's just. I also found it interesting the end of chapter 21, where he's talking about the types of maxims. These is the four type of maxims where the adendum is already known and not needed. And how concise you can make this. In other words, the reason or lacking, because it's self evident as soon as it's stated,. Or you have the reason and you state it fully, or you have it somehow incorporated into
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