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Rhetoric is the ancient art of argumentation and discourse.
From the Golden Age of Greece, to the mighty Roman Empire, to the gleaming manuscripts of medieval monastic libraries, the study of rhetoric has been a central part of a liberal arts education. They include . . . There are two types of logical argument, inductive and deductive . In an inductive argument, the reader holds up a specific example, and then claims that what is true for it is also true for a general category. It is sour.