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

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Fallacies - The Texas Governor's Mansion

 

Presence – space  

Making it feel close. 

They also said that certain parts of the room became unbearably cold.... servants refused to clean the blood splatter from the walls, saying that when they were in the room, they could hear someone crying and moaning.  

Precedent 

 B won’t slippery slope, but it opens the door. 

 

She said that one night, she turned off the light above Houston’s portrait and went to bed. When she awoke the next morning, she was shocked to discover the door to the bedroom was open and the light above the portrait had been turned off. 

 

Succession 

A cause-and-effect argument. 

 

 In the mid-1980s, Glenda Gale White, the wife of gov. Mark White, said she saw Sam Houston’s apparition in his bedroom. She said that one night, she turned off the light above Houston’s portrait and went to bed. When she awoke the next morning, she was shocked to discover the door to the bedroom was open and the light above the portrait had been turned off. 

 

Division 

 Breaking something into parts. 

 

 Multiple mentions of different ghosts  

illustration 

 Event strengthens adherence to a rule. 

 Cold spots, lights turning off, hearing sounds such as crying and moaning where someone died, supposed sighting off ghosts. 

 

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