Tag Archive for Aristotle

Versions of Enthymeme

I had to write out what enthymeme meant since it was used with the word syllogism.  Try saying those two words ten times without stuttering!  Reading how they relate to one another was a reading tongue twister, but my impression…

Aristotle’s Lying for Dummies

The readings this week reminded me heavily of the discussions we’ve been having in class thus far.  While many of the issues we’ve been talking about were very relevant in the Aristotle reading in particular, the one that really interested…

Aristotle’s Rhetoric

Go from one Greek philosopher to the next, throw in a few Roman thinkers and it becomes clear through this class’ readings that the power of rhetoric is not lost on today’s society. Comparing the education of today with that…

quintillian and aristotle

Throughout Aristotle and Quintillian’s works, we are presented with various interpretations of rhetoric. For Aristotle, rhetoric is “defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion”. In his neatly packaged treatise on rhetoric, Aristotle…