The source connects rhetoric’s practical benefits with both its use and the need for caution. Accessible reasons can aid beneficial exhortation; unreliable assertions can equally mislead a crowd.
A careful speaker identifies sources, distinguishes certainty from probability, and chooses premises the audience can understand.
This relates rhetoric to the wider purpose of logic: protecting thought against error, in a technical classroom as well as in public communication.
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Rhetorical Syllogism: Accepted, Probable Premises and Persuasion
The source connects rhetoric’s practical benefits with both its use and the need for caution. Accessible reasons can aid beneficial exhortation; unreliable assertions can equally mislead a crowd.
A careful speaker identifies sources, distinguishes certainty from probability, and chooses premises the audience can understand.
This relates rhetoric to the wider purpose of logic: protecting thought against error, in a technical classroom as well as in public communication.