Elements of Rhetoric Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and Persuasion with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780766194311
Subjects: Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric
First sentence: 1. IT was remarked in the Treatise on LOGIC, that in the process of Investigation properly so called, viz. that by which we endeavour to discover truth, it must of course be uncertain to him who is entering on that process, what the conclusion will be to which his researches will lead ; but that in the process of conveying truth to others by reasoning, (i. e. in what may be termed, according to the view I have at present taken, the rhetorical process,) the conclusion or conclusions which are to be established must be present to the mind of him who is conducting the Argument, and whose business is to find Proofs of a given proposition.