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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Well, it depends what you mean by "better."

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Rhetoric is just Greek for the means of persuasion.

A more effective means of persuasion is better rhetoric by definition, because determining truth is not the goal, getting them to do what you want is.

But, yes, ideally rhetoric and epistemology would go hand in hand.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

I've finally met someone more pedantic than I.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 15 points 6 days ago

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago
[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Don't think I didn't appreciate it.

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