ENGL101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inventio, Dialectic, Self-Defense
23 Sep 2016
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Scientific approach was a doctor, thus his approach to rhetoric was much in the same o today o. Ideas formed the basis of how we study the physical world and language. Laid foundations for such things such as western logic, physics, biology, Studied under plato for 20 years in athens. Rhetoric is a counterpart of dialectic, which resembles in being concerned with matters of common knowledge and not with any special science It is the same with dialect, which does not draw conclusions from any random premises but it it takes its material from subjects which demand reasoned discussion, as rhetoric does from those which are common subjects of deliberation . Aristotle"s definition could be seen as a witty reply to plato"s critic on the. Platonism thought rhetoric as the counterpart of cookery. Plato, dialectic was a means of arriving at absolute knowledge, through subject o o o o dialogue of question and answer.
