https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/12/dialectic-trumps-rhetoric/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Fri, 05 May 2017 23:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/12/dialectic-trumps-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-6518 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 05:39:13 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=8367#comment-6518 Ah. I was trying to say facts trump falsity.

]]> https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2015/12/dialectic-trumps-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-6516 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:11:48 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=8367#comment-6516 It is rare that I thoroughly disagree with you (even when on Papist matters). But I couldn’t disagree more with this one. False rhetoric is a lie. Because falsity, not because rhetoric. And anyway dialectical reasoning is a rhetorical device. Reason is often ruled by passions. Sometimes Often, pure reason is not enough. Enter true rhetoric.

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