Response To Burke's Argument

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My initial thoughts on Burkes’ text is that if I were to walk into the parlor and engage into the heated argument with the other people I would be engaging into a conversation unintended for me. You cannot show forth your opinions of an argument and while not knowing entirely what was said in the beginning of the argument. Burke stated that the argument had started way before entering the parlor which suggest that no one possibly knew what the origin of the argument came from. I agree with Burke’s analogy because in the 21st century no one can be right and no one can be wrong and no one wants to leave an argument without the ‘last word”. With that being said when Burke described as the argument as interminable I couldn’t agree more because

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