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Argumentation:
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A way of expressing, reasoning, trying to convince others to agree with you, trying to come to arrive at the best conclusions
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2 senses of making an argument:
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1. Sense of making an argument 2. sense of having an argument.
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Explanations:
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Communications presented to clarify ideas and improve understanding rather than support a claim.
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Opinions:
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Messages that present an individual's personal beliefs on a subject.
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Formal logic:
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Traditional study of logic, or study of the logical form that arguments should take, including how premises should lead to conclusions, assuming premises are correct.
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Informal logic:
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Study of reasoning from evidence to conclusions, focusing on elements of reasoning other than the form of the arguments.
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Reasoning:
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1. Something you do as you go through process of drawing a conclusion. 2. Something you use, in the sense that when you make an argument, you use reasoning to support the claim.
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Rhetoric:
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Study of the available means of persuasion
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Logos:
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Uses reasoning to influence others, (like logic)
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Ethos:
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Personal character of the individual making argument, credibility.
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pathos:
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Use of emotions to convince the audience.
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purpose for argumentation:
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reaching the best decisions we can
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St. Augustine: people should learn rhetoric because
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1. aids in the search for truth. 2. allows the good to have a voice.
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