PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Euphemism, Loaded Question, Gentle Men

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sascha Maicher

Document Summary

You use rhetoric to win someone to your point of view. You use logic to demonstrate a claim or support it. Words and expressions have emotive meaning or rhetorical force: this is their power to express and elicit various psychological and emotional responses. Euphemism is a neutral or positive expression used in place of one that. Sorry you killed your dog (cid:498)sorry you had to put your dog down(cid:499) Dysphemisms is used to produce a negative effect on someone"s attitude about something or to tone down the positive associations it may have. They help protect it from criticism by watering it down somewhat, weakening it, and giving the claims author a way out in case their claim is challenged. Terms snuck into an argument that water it down. Ex: perhaps, maybe, in the case of. Downplayers attempt to make someone or something look less important or less significant. Rhetorical definition: persuades you to take a negative or positive stand.