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Truth and Rhetoric

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But Aristotle says the reason we need rhetoric is we have to be able to use it. To use rhetoric..influence the ramble..we try to get them to understand truth. Truth is suggest..its different than rhetoric. Rhetoric is the dressing..is the body, right? Truth is the spirit, is the soul, is abstract. It doesn't have a body. It's not particular. If you want to get somebody to the truth, you might have to use some kind of tricks, right? Because most of people are not sound and can see the truth. That's what we think. Most people are rambles, really. Only the educated be erudite are actually capable of seeing the truth. If you want to get the general mass there, you may have to do a little bit. So Aristotle..that is rhetoric. Rhetoric is something that is used to influence people, right? And it's kind of mentally promised a logic.

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But Aristotle says the reason we need rhetoric is we have to be able to use it. To use rhetoric..influence the ramble..we try to get them to understand truth. Truth is suggest..its different than rhetoric. Rhetoric is the dressing..is the body, right? Truth is the spirit, is the soul, is abstract. It doesn't have a body. It's not particular. If you want to get somebody to the truth, you might have to use some kind of tricks, right? Because most of people are not sound and can see the truth. That's what we think. Most people are rambles, really. Only the educated be erudite are actually capable of seeing the truth. If you want to get the general mass there, you may have to do a little bit. So Aristotle..that is rhetoric. Rhetoric is something that is used to influence people, right? And it's kind of mentally promised a logic.
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