To do so, Gordon reads the presentation of facts and figures from both pro- and contra-bitumen interests alongside rhetorical theory on bullshit,
enthymemes, and the various limits of arguments steeped in ethos, logos, and pathos.
Aristotle's remark on Isocrates' treatment of Evagoras is a case in point: in his discussion about
enthymemes, Aristotle points to the fact that the Athenian general Conon took refuge with Evagoras as proof of Evagoras' goodness, and as confirmation of Isocrates' judgment on Evagoras.
Paradigm involves the use of anecdotes and stories for proving a point, and
enthymemes are the syllogistic arguments in which a claim is supported by one or more spans.
It may be that visuals open up previously closed sites of contestation (Olson & Goodnight, 1994), challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and thus close off the possibility of verbal
enthymemes, or create "mind-bombs" that reconfigure the grounds of argument (Deluca, 1999a & 1999b).
Why would anyone want to deny your right to thati Visionary politics relies primarily on imaginative appeals, not syllogisms or
enthymemes, as anyone who has listened to recent presidential campaigns will recognize.
He wrote about syllogisms as forms of tight philosophical logic but situated
enthymemes with popular, informal speech (Aristotle 2007, 34).
The Because RhetComp Tumblr site creates truncated
enthymemes asserting individual scholars as the "reason" for concepts and movements in the field; examples include "Taste/Because Blair" "Technologies of Wonder/Because Delagrange" (http ://becauserhetcomp .
Judgments of logical soundness and pragmatic convincingness as related to standard 3 component syllogisms and to
enthymemes.
That is, his writing is a series of
enthymemes, which, if we agree with their premises, construct arguments whose logical coherence is really impossible to break down.
In most of the rhetorical situations, logical argumentation to prove a thesis is enough:
enthymemes, epicheiremes and ratiocinations.
The ethical appeal has particular importance in legal discourse because the modes of persuasion through
enthymemes and examples present arguments based on probability, not certainty of proof.
Within this part of this paper it will be detailed an interpretation about a meaningful coexistence of the philosophical argumentation and the rhetoric style, using Aristotelian
enthymemes at the crucial loci of the work, the above mentioned paragraphs.
