ONT Re: Verities Of Likely Stories
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VOLS. Note 7
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| Rhetoric is a counterpart [Greek 'antistrophos'] of Dialectic;
| for both have to do with matters that are in a manner within the
| cognizance of all men and not confined to any special science.
| Hence all men in a manner have a share of both; for all, up to
| a certain point, endeavour to criticize or uphold an argument,
| to defend themselves or to accuse. Now, the majority of people
| do this either at random or with a familiarity arising from habit.
| But since both these ways are possible, it is clear that matters
| can be reduced to a system, for it is possible to examine the
| reason why some attain their end by familiarity and others by
| chance; and such an examination all would at once admit to be
| the function of an art ['techne']. (1-2)
|
| Now, previous compilers of "Arts" of Rhetoric have provided us with
| only a small portion of this art, for proofs are the only things in
| it that come within the province of art; everything else is merely
| an accessory. And yet they say nothing about enthymemes which are
| the body of proof, but chiefly devote their attention to matters
| outside the subject; for the arousing of prejudice, compassion,
| anger, and similar emotions has no connexion with the matter in
| hand, but is directed only to the dicast. (3-4)
|
| Aristotle, "Art of Rhetoric", 1.1.1-4.
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| Aristotle, "The 'Art' of Rhetoric",
| John Henry Freese (trans.), in:
|'Aristotle, Volume 22', G.P. Goold (ed.),
| William Heinemann, London, UK, 1926, 1982.
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