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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rhetoric is just Greek for the means of persuasion.

A more effective means of persuasion is better rhetoric by definition, because determining truth is not the goal, getting them to do what you want is.

But, yes, ideally rhetoric and epistemology would go hand in hand.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

I've finally met someone more pedantic than I.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 14 points 1 day ago

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

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