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A Rhetorical Analysis Of On Bullshit By Renan Levine

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Renan Levine has written an article on how to identify lies, bullshit, and knowledge. The article mainly talks about of arguments between persons which can be falsely or even contain bullshit. The author is trying to show the difference between lies and bullshit. Bullshit can refer to talking nonsense which most of the times is entails of lies while lies are just false statements about a particular object or person. Most liars and bullshitters believe that they are telling the truth and most of them always want to get away with that fact. However there is a big difference between liars and bullshitters since liars commonly know the truth but typically want to hide it while bullshitters they just don't care about the fact ("On Bullshit by …show more content…

Arguments are supposed to be logical and should have some basis for accepting the truth. The author has stated how an argument should be evaluated mainly by looking at the truthfulness of the area of the argument, the strength of the argument and how vital is that truth. Moreover there various words that both friends and enemies use to state liars and bullshitting and these words can sometimes not be noticed in an argument. That is because the parties involved in an argument may play around with words making it difficult for the other side to discern any …show more content…

Daniel, the writer of this article, has written a letter to the New York Times asking Friedman to give a sabbatical break from publishing his column because all that he is sating is just false. It seems that Daniel must have collected his facts through frequent reading of the New York Times and doing his research about the topics Thomas usually discusses.
As stated earlier, data analysis can be carried out in different ways.The collected data can be analyzed by jotting down the facts and compare them with what Thomas typically states in his articles. The writer has researched and given solutions of the possible advice that can be given to Iran meaning that he did his research efficiently. Daniel may have used the measure of central tendency to know how often Thomas had been stating facts that can cause a foreign crisis. Measure of central tendency (or statistical average) tells us the point about which items a
The tendency to cluster. Such an action is considered as the most representative figure for the entire mass of

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