Notes on Rhetoric

Smoky Joe, JD, in Defense of Freedom

Mark Kaplan provides analphatetical list of rhetorical ploys to advance your case and undermine your opponent without recourse to any unfair advantage such as evidence, reason, or wit. Sample:

Silences: Yours are dignified, your opponent's revealing.

Smoky Joe, taking lessons from Mark's list of dodges, hopes to exemplify sophistry at its best. "Whatever works," he says, "Isn't that good old American Pargamatism? How else do Knaves come to power, take over the courts and have intellectuals like Mark drawn and quartered for Treason to Unreason"? He will be teaching Creationism once the Forces of Freedom conquer London.

Comments

[Felix del Campo]

I guess the reason most people get lost in thought is because it's unfamilar territory.

[The Happy Tutor]

Felix, that is one of the better things said here in a long time.

[JJ Commoner]

Is American Pargamatism taught in the same year as the Fundamentals of American Edumacation ?

[The Happy Tutor]

We test every student every year, lest they get lost in thought.