ENGL101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Assonance, Fallacy, Bewitch
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Sophistry is a logical fallacy (mistaken belief, failure in reasoning) Argument for the sake of winning at any cost. Where many of the arguments against sophistry arise from. Text overview: the sophist, gorgias encomium of helen . 480 bce (before common era/before christ) 375 bc. First to establish rhetoric as a formal art. Sophist were lecturers and teachers of public speech. Gorgias came to athens as ambassador and began teaching rhetoric for. Plato called it soul merchandizing and referred rhetoric to a money making enterprise. In modern terms sophists were the first teachers/professors. What is becoming to a city is manpower, to a body beauty, to a soul wisdom, to an action virtue, to a speech truth, and the opposites of these are unbecoming. Importance of the origins and history of rhetoric o o o. Oral culture: spoken word was most important medium of communication. Therefore, encomium of helen should be recognized as being designed for.