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Rhetoric and Analogies [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The art of rhetoric may be defined as changing other people's minds (opinions, beliefs) without providing them new information. One technique heavily used by rhetoric employs analogies. Using analogies, one may draw the listener's attention to similarities between cases and to re-organize existing information in a way that highlights certain ...
Andrew Postlewaite   +5 more
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John Locke on Inference and Fallacy, A Re-Appraisal

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2014
John Locke, long associated with the “standard” approach to fallacies and the “logical” approach to valid inference, had both logical and dialectical reasons for favoring certain proofs and denigrating others. While the logical approach to argumentation
Mark Garrett Longaker
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“First Catch Your Hare”: Some Difficulties with, and Contextual Factors in, Understanding (In)Appropriate Workplace Relationships

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2022
The article considers the contextual factors that lead to descriptions of workplace relationships as appropriate and inappropriate. It reviews viewpoint, context of activity, and the tension between social and personal relationships in environments based
Steve Duck
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Introduction to Thematic Section on Business Rhetoric

open access: yesHermes, 2001
No abstract.
- The Business Rhetoric Research Group
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Assessing Deliberative Pedagogy: Using a Learning Outcomes Rubric to Assess Tradeoffs and Tensions

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2016
Teaching deliberative decision-making is a method of encouraging students to think critically, engage public problems, and engage in both public speaking and public listening.
Sara A. Mehltretter Drury
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Scholarship 2.0:

open access: yesCrossings, 2022
Scholars have shown how the politics of English(es) can perpetuate structures of unequal power, marginalization, and injustice (as well as being used to counter them).
Shyam Sharma
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A Dialogue on the Constructions of GLBT and Queer Ethos: “I Belong to a Culture That Includes …”

open access: yesHumanities, 2019
Invoking a dialogue between two scholars, authors Jane Hoogestraat and Hillery Glasby discuss the exigence for, construction of, and differentiation between LGBT and queer ethos.
Jane Hoogestraat, Hillery Glasby
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Quotation in Social Media: How Sharing Other People’s Words Could Increase Misinformation

open access: yesStudia Humanistyczne AGH, 2022
According to the report “We Are Social” (2021), one of the most important reasons why Internet users take to social media platforms are: “stay up-to-date with news and current events”, “seeing what’s being talked about”, and “sharing and discussing ...
Agnieszka Maria Kula, Monika Grzelka
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Kantorowicz’s Oaths

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2014
This essay is about Ernst Kantorowicz’s stance on the anti-communist Loyalty Oath controversy at the University of California in the early years of the Cold War. Kantorowicz, who just had escaped Nazi Germany, found himself caught up in a fight between a
Mario Wimmer
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Revolutions as disasters of misconceived political projects of social mutations

open access: yesFilozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2022
The study reviews the book You say you want a revolution? Radical idealism and its tragic consequences by D. Chirot (Prince­ton, Princeton University Press, 2020) and, at the same time, ad­vances a viewpoint on social revolutions based on Thoreau’s im ...
Cătălin Mamali Abstract:
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