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HoP 049 - Stage Directions - Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Rhetoric of Aristotle

Aristotle's greatest contribution to the study of rhetoric will be a classification of these enthemes, or persuasive arguments. He sees rhetoric as a discipline that is closely related to logic. In his logical works, aristotle discussed demonstrative arguments which prove things with complete certainty and also dialectical arguments,. Now in the rhetoric, he tackles a other kind of argument, arguments that are persuasive.

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