Links to rhetorical tools:

Here are links to the rhetorical tools used in this class:

Schemes & Tropes -- Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca -- Fallacies -- Burke -- Rhetorical Toolbox -- Conspiracy Rhetorics

Saturday, February 27, 2021

Dior Ayala -- Argument types in SIGHTING BIGFOOT!?

 

  • Premises

    • Presumptions : admitted as assumptions

    • Abstract : not concrete

      • “it was greyish-black in colour… I couldn’t see the face very well because it was covered with hair… bigfoot… it was standing right infront of us”

Argument Types

  • based on the structure of reality

    • Bias

      • “My friend didn’t believe… but i told her ‘it was standing right infront of us'’”

  • Establishing the structure of reality 

    • Import : event calls attention to rule’s possible application

      • “We observed a large upright animal standing in the middle of the road… bigfoot”

  • Dissociation

    • Justification : expressions which invite dissociation

      • “Stood about 7 feet tall” 


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