PHIL 210 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: False Precision, Implicature, Presupposition
4 Jun 2020
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Related phenomenon: presupposition; a proposition that may not be explicit in some statement, but which must be granted if the statement is to be meaningful. Rhetoric is the study and use of effective communication, including cogent argumentation. They can be perfectly legitimate in an argumentative context they can be elegant and stylish ways of communicating one"s judgments or of making assertions by way of presupposition. Range of rhetorical devices; the inclusion of subtle value judgments in assertions to the use of implicatures and aspects of prosody or the actual manner of speaking someone employs. "but" and "and" have very different rhetorical effects. Other prosodic features of speech (roughly, those dependent on how something is said, rather than what is said, are rarely made explicit in writing. Ex: manner in which someone else"s speech is reported, drunk person leaving part, p. 66. Qualifier words include words like "pretty" as in "pretty small". "this policy will benefit a lot of canadians. "
