Logic model

Rhetoric Theory One of the most common theories in communication is rhetoric. “Rhetoric is communication that influences the attitudes or behaviors of others” (Alberts, Nakayama, and Martin 319). Rhetoric is what is used to persuade an audience. Philosophers have defined rhetoric in different ways. Plato defined rhetoric as “the art of winning the soul be discourse” (Alberts, Nakayama, and Martin 324). Aristotle, one of Plato’s students, said rhetoric was “the faculty of discovering in any…

Is It Interesting, Interesting Enough? To use Murray Davis' own premise, I will deny his assumption of what makes a theory interesting. Undoubtedly, his major point throughout the essay is that denying an old theory is a stepping stone for a new theory to becoming interesting. In other words, the concept of interesting correlates with refuting a previous theory: behaviorism was a response to psychoanalysis; cognitive a response to behaviorism; Marxism a response to industrialization. In these…

challenges the reader to do something with it. It is pragmatic, not dogmatic. Pierre Hadot attributes this distinction between discourse about philosophy and philosophy itself to Stoics: ‘For the Stoics, the parts of philosophy - physics, ethics, and logic - were not, in fact, parts of philosophy itself, but rather parts of philosophical discourse... philosophy itself... is no longer a theory divided into parts, but a unitary act, which consist in living…

research field includes a vast domain of unsolved issues and conceptions in development. Well-intended definitions, as suggested by classic positions within the philosophy of mathematics – where logicism describes mathematics as a further development of logic; formalism describes it as a formal game governed by explicitly stated rules; and intuitionism describes mathematics as a particular mental process – might simply be concealing the fact that there are no unifying characteristics of…

What do you love and what do you feel is your “life’s task” calling? I love using business intelligence and computer science to analyze, model and solve complex problems. Complexity refers to the difficulty in predicting the overall behavior of a system—even when given near perfect information—due to the large number of components and interconnections between them (Edmonds, 1995)(Heylighen, 1996). Therefore, a complex problem is one that is difficult to solve due to the large number of…

Decorum is a strategy of ethos in which you attempt to fit in with the audience by meeting their expectations by dressing and talking the way they expect. This makes them feel comfortable with the persuader. You must change your decorum based on your audience’s expectations because you want to make them feel comfortable to be able to move people away from their current opinion. In addition, different audiences have different expectations of you, so you must meet each one by changing your decorum…

“The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism and Celestial order” by Robert Westman. Published in 2011 The piece revolves around Copernicus and his contributions to both the philosophical and scientific spheres. It raises questions about his incentives to pursue and his mindset while pursuing what he thought was “truth” especially with the knowledge of possibly being ridiculed and rejected by his peers. With this it also reveals a feel of the society of that time as we are entreated to…

Taleb argues that “black swan logic makes what you don’t know far more relevant than what you do know” (Taleb, 2010, p.xxiii). However, it is impossible to formulate a plan of action to accommodate the unknown variables of a situation as the knowledge outside our realm of understanding…

we slightly change our version in order to persuade our interlocutors. This attitude is crucial in rhetoric. Rhetoric, in fact, is the art of communicating using ethos, logos, pathos and kairos, three Greek philosophical concepts that mean ethics, logic, empathy and proportion respectively. Rhetoric, thus, is about communicating an opinion using every useful instrument in order to persuade the interlocutors of the validity of the thesis proposed. As previously affirmed, rhetorical…

This definition is used to identify when it is appropriate to make a statement or contribution to the discourse by defining the conditions for the situation. In turn the logic in the discourse deals with defining the rules for attack and defence in relation to the goal (Prakken, 2005). The second aspect suggested by Walton was that the analysis of different types of dialogue games was the result of adding together the concept…