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Comparing Aristotle's Rhetoric And Dialectic

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In chapter one of Aristotle, he states rhetoric is counterpart of dialectic. Rhetoric is public speaking of persuading, whereas Dialectic is private with dialogues designed to uncover the truth. However, each are both the methodologies in a rhetoric forms. He believes that rhetoric is useful in four main reasons. First, Aristotle states that “things are true and the other things are just use their natural tendency to against their opposite side” (180). Next, as a mode of persuasion and argument, the author has to deal with a popular audience. Third, he claims that we must able to use the persuasion, either on strict reason or in the opposite side in order to see the facts. Finally, being unable to defend himself with the limbs is more embarrassing
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