Aristotle on Rhetoric¶
Aristotle. (1991). Aristotle on Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse (trans. George A. Kennedy). Oxford University Press.
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- Antithesis
- Aristotle treated antithesis in the Rhetoric as one of the figures that produces asteia — the stylish, well-liked turns of phrase Kennedy renders "urbanities" — holding that contraries set side by side are the easiest to grasp, that the antithetical form "has the effect of a logical argument," and that the more antithetically a saying is put, the more taking it is
This sourceRhetoric III.9 on the antithetical period — contraries set side by side are the easiest to grasp, and the form 'has the effect of a logical argument' — together with III.11, where putting a saying briefly and antithetically is what makes it asteion, the stylish, well-liked turn of phrase Kennedy renders 'urbanity'.
- Aristotle treated antithesis in the Rhetoric as one of the figures that produces asteia — the stylish, well-liked turns of phrase Kennedy renders "urbanities" — holding that contraries set side by side are the easiest to grasp, that the antithetical form "has the effect of a logical argument," and that the more antithetically a saying is put, the more taking it is
- Logos
- Logos is, in Aristotle's rhetoric, the mode of persuasion that works through the apparent rational structure of an argument: explicit premises, supplied evidence, inferential steps, internal coherence, and the look-and-feel of valid reasoning
This sourceAristotle, Rhetoric I.2 (1356a), where the third mode of persuasion is defined as the proof, or apparent proof, provided by the words of the speech itself. Aristotle, Rhetoric I.2 (1356a), for the triad of artistic pisteis partitioned by the source of persuasive force; the 'register' gloss is the article's own, not Aristotle's. Aristotle, Rhetoric I.1-I.2, for the three pisteis and for the enthymeme as the rhetorical syllogism and the substance of rhetorical persuasion; the English phrase 'body of proof' is one translator's rendering and was not verified against the edition cited. Aristotle, Rhetoric I.2 (1356a35-b), where the example is called a rhetorical induction and the enthymeme a rhetorical syllogism.
- Logos is, in Aristotle's rhetoric, the mode of persuasion that works through the apparent rational structure of an argument: explicit premises, supplied evidence, inferential steps, internal coherence, and the look-and-feel of valid reasoning
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