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Scholars
Rhetoric
Terms
Miscellanious
100
Communication struggles for recognition because humans can use communication to deceive and exploit one another
True
100
Who described communication study as a ''discipline of refugees?''
Robert Gunderson
100
What are the three kinds of appeals?
Ethos, Pathos and Logos
100
A primary means of meeting our needs and accomplishing our goals
What is Communication?
100
Who coined the term communication and gave it its modern meaning?
John Locke
200
Augustine gave far less respect to rhetoric that Plato
False- Augustine gave far greater respect
200
Which sophists explain the idea that there are two sides of an argument?
Protagoras
200
What does rhetoric focus on?
Written arguments and essays
200
Emphasizes voice, diction and gestures
What is Elocution?
200
What are the five canons of rhetoric?
1. Invention 2. Disposition 3. Style 4. Memory 5. Delivery
300
Plato agreed with sophist teachings
False- He disagreed
300
Formal logic was this scholars greatest contribution and invention
Aristotle
300
In order to defend truth, honarbale citizens had to be knowledgeable and skillful in this concept.
Rhetoric
300
Who focuses on human achievement?
Humanism
300
Who set the standard for arguments to be judged as adequate or inadequate?
Richard Whately
400
Roman writings on rhetoric tended to bring together a variety of Greek ideas into an organized system
True
400
Who invented the printing press?
Johann Gutenberg
400
What did Aristotle define rhetoric as?
The art of discovering all avaliable means of persuasion in a given situation.
400
The ability to generate the ideas needed to be persuasive in a given situation
What is Invention?
400
Who captured the Moors library at Toledo?
Christians
500
Aristotle viewed rhetoric as suspect because it can be used to promote falsehood over truth and thus steered honarable men away from it
False- it was Plato
500
One of Alexander's loyal lieutenants, completed the construction of the library as he had wanted. Who was it?
Ptolemy Soter
500
Who wrote the book Philosophy of Rhetoric that was published in 1776?
George Campbell
500
What is the tricky use of style to deceive an audience?
Sophistry
500
What specific claims based on observations are combined with the known universal principles to draw conclusions?
Syllogisms