why?
> You can't really do that with religions because different faiths (and that
> word choice should signal somethin') all presume with the assumption that
> they're right
And just because they think they are right, no one can argue
with them?
>
> The second is based on a pretty basic rhetorical principal advanced by our
> pal Chaim Perleman: before a rhetor can persuade an audience, the rhetor
> must begin with a persumption that the audience agrees with, and if the
> rhetor chooses to make an appeal that is not presumed by the audience, it
> won't work.
He said that is where you begin...with something you can
reasonably presume that your audience agrees with...
It's not where you end, though, or why speak?
Darlene Sybert
http://www.missouri.edu/~c557506/index.htl
University of Missouri at Columbia (English)
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
It's loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
-John Keats "Endymion"
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