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Rhetoric

8 primes originate from Rhetoric. 11 more draw from it as a secondary origin.

Primary members (8)

Primes whose canonical origin is Rhetoric.

  • Enthymeme — An argument whose load-bearing premises are deliberately left unstated for the audience to supply from shared assumptions, making the conclusion co-authored and the persuasion contingent on assumption-base match.
  • False Dilemma — A partition of a rich option space is presented as exhaustive when it is not, so reasoning proceeds inside cells while real alternatives have been suppressed.
  • Inoculation Theory — An adaptive system is made resistant to a future threat by pre-exposing it to a weakened form plus a successful refutation, so its defensive machinery activates and generalizes in advance.
  • Memory Palace (Method of Loci) — Spatial mnemonic encoding via familiar locations.
  • Presupposition Smuggling — A communicative move binds a surface action to an embedded premise so that engaging the surface ratifies the premise without argument.
  • Rhetorical Velocity — Compose an artefact in anticipation of how others will cut, remix, and forward its fragments.
  • Simile — A marked explicit comparison that transfers a single salient attribute from a familiar vehicle to an unfamiliar topic while keeping the two distinct, enabling fast perceptual or affective uptake.
  • Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy — Drawing the hypothesis boundary around an observed cluster and then crediting it as if it had been specified in advance.

Also draws from Rhetoric (11)

Primes whose canonical origin is elsewhere, but who list Rhetoric among their alternate origin domains.