ENGL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stephen Toulmin, Syllogism, Enthymeme
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Next time, we"ll talk some about christopher hitchens read what you can of it by then. For today, we should discuss the ideas of soa. Looking at the types or argument and how they work should help us begin to analyze arguments themselves. The book defines argument as discourse that attempts to persuade, and it lists three components: the subject, writer, and audience. Aristotle essentially analyzed the different kinds of appeals and arguments used in debate. It occupies the rhetorical (writer to audience) relationship, obviously. To start with, he categorized two types of appeal, with a third category adding to our reception of those appeals. -intelligence the speaker is knowledgeable on the subject. Ethos is the characteristics that make us trust the speaker. -the example, or induction generalizing from specifics (specific to general) -the enthymeme, or deduction applying a generalization to a specific instance. Aristotle also described a type of logical argument that we still use today the syllogism.
