CMN 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Dialectic, Socalled, Enthymeme

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 210
• Professor: Matthew Tiessen

Document Summary

Aristotle applies numerous concepts and arguments that are also treated in is logical, ethical, and psychological wriings. Sullogismos forms the basis of dialecic, logic, and his theory of demonstraion: works on rhetoric. Rhetoric refers to historical events that fall in the ime of aristotle"s exile and his second stay in. The structure of rhet i and ii is determined by two triparite divisions. The irst division consists in the disincion among the three means of persuasion. The second triparite division concerns the three species of public speech. The speech that takes place before a court is deined as the judicial species. Rhetoric: the art of efecive or persuasive speaking or wriing, especially the use of igures of speech and other composiional techniques. Dialecic: a discourse between two or more people holding diferent points of view about a subject: rhetoric as a counterpart to dialecic. Rhetoric is said to be a counterpart to dialecic and the study of character.