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Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Logos

The Greek word λόγος or logos is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "Word" but can also mean thought, speech, reason, principle, standard, or logic among other things. It has varied use in the fields of philosophy, analytical psychology, rhetoric and religion. Logos - Use in ancient philosophy. In ancient philosophy, Logos was used by Heraclitus, one of the more eminent Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, to describe human knowledge and the inherent order in ...

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Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia II - Logos - Use in rhetoric In rhetoric, logos is one of the three modes of persuasion (the other two are pathos, emotional appeal, and ethos, the qualification of the speaker). Logos refers to logical appeal, and in fact the term logic evolves from it. Logos normally implies numbers, polls, and other mathematical or scientific data. Logos has many advantages: Data is hard to manipulate, meaning that it is harder to argue against a logos argument. For the same reason, it may sway cynical listeners to the speaker's opinion. Logos enhances ethos by making the speaker look prepared ...

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Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Rhetoric

Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, "orator") is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar) in Western culture. In ancient and medieval times, grammar concerned itself with correct language use through the study and criticism of literary models, dialectic concerned itself with the testing and invention of new knowledge through a process of question and answer, and rhetoric concerned itself with persuasion in public and political settings such as assemblies and c ...

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Rhetoric - History

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Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Amplification

Amplification refers to the act and the means of extending thoughts or statements to increase rhetorical effect, to add importance, or to make the most of a thought or circumstance (Oxford English Dictionary). While amplification can refer to exaggeration--or stylistic vices (figures of excess and superfluity such as hyperbole)--as a means for developing multiple forms of expression for a thought, amplification, “names an important point of intersection where figures of speech and figures of thought coalesce” (Silva Rhetoricae). < ...

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Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Wayne C. Booth

Wayne Clayson Booth (February 22, 1921 – October 10, 2005) was an American literary critic. He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and the College at the University of Chicago. His work followed largely from the Chicago school of literary criticism. He was born in American Fork, Utah and educated at Brigham Young University and the University of Chicago. His major work was The Rhetoric of Fiction. In this book, Booth argues that all narrative is a form of rhetoric. The speaker in narrative is ...

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Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Philosophical analysis

Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Philosophical analysis is a general term for the techniques used by philosophers. These techniques vary across time and place. This article will examine philosophical techniques. Philosophical analysis - Arguments. Main articles: Logical argument,Including:

Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Catachresis

Catachresis is the (usually intentional) use of any figure of speech that flagrantly violates the norms of a language community. Compare malapropism. Common forms of catachresis are: Using a word to denote something radically different from its normal meaning. 'Tis deepest winter in Lord Timon's purse – Shakespeare, Timon of Athens Using a word out of context. 'Can't you hear that? Are you blind?' Using paradoxical or contradictory lo ...

Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Apophasis

Apophasis (Late Latin, from Greek apophanai, "to say no" [1]) refers, in general, to "mentioning by not mentioning". Apophasis has specific meanings when used a figure of speech or as a logical device. Apophasis - In Rhetoric. Apophasis is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. As such, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony. The device is typically used to distance the speaker from unfair claims, whi ...

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Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Climax figure of speech

In rhetoric, climax is a figure of speech, in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. It is sometimes used with anadiplosis, which uses the repetition of a word or phrase in successive clauses. Climax is from the Greek word for "ladder". Examples: "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." 1 Corinthians 13:13 "I think we've reached a point of great decision, not just for our nation, not only for all human ...

Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Bad

Bad is a concept used to describe undesirable circumstances or events. Though bad often is used to imply moral turpitude of a person, the term more specifically refers to an unfortunate circumstance. While bad is often used as a synonym for evil, bad can also refer to something flawed or unusable. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made much of a distinction he drew in German between the böse, ("evil"), which he was prepared to admire, and the schlecht ("bad"), which he disdained; in ...

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Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Aposiopesis

Aposiopesis (from Classical Greek, ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent") is the term for the rhetorical device by which the speaker or writer deliberately stops short and leaves something unexpressed, but yet obvious, to be supplied by the imagination, giving the impression that she is unwilling or unable to continue. It often portrays being overcome with passion (fear, anger, excitement) or modesty. The ellipsis or dash is used. The traditional example of aposiopesis is the threat of Neptune in Virgil's Aeneid< ...

Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Antisthenes

Antisthenes (c. 444-365 BC), the founder of the Cynic school of philosophy, was born at Athens of a Thracian mother. In his youth he studied rhetoric under Gorgias, perhaps also under Hippias and Prodicus. Some suggest that he was originally in good circumstances, but was reduced to poverty. However this may be, he came under the influence of Socrates, and became a devoted pupil. So eager was he to hear the words of Socrates that he used to walk daily from Peiraeus to Athens, and persuaded his friends accompany him. Fill ...

Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Periphrasis

Periphrasis, like its Latin counterpart circumlocution, is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is indirectly expressed through several or many words. (Periphrasis is of Greek origin [περίφρασις < peri (περί) «about, around» + phrasis (φράσις) «phrase»], while circumlocution is Latin – both meaning "phrasing around", as in ...

Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Antonomasia

Antonomasia is a rhetoric device: the substitution of any epithet or phrase for a proper name; the opposite substitution of a proper name for some generic term is also sometimes called antonomasia. The word derives from the Greek word antonomazein meaning "to name differently". A frequent instance of antonomasia in the Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was the use of the term, "the Philosopher", to refer to Aristotle. A more recent example of the other form of antonomasia was the use in 1930s journalism of "Solons" for "the legislators", a ...

Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - West Coast of the United States

In general, the term "West Coast" is a nickname for the coastal states of the Western United States, comprising California, Oregon and Washington, and sometimes Alaska and Hawaii (see Pacific States). Occasionally Nevada, not a coastal state, is included as a West Coast state since it is in close proximity. The West Coast is a portion of the West. Sometimes even Arizona is included for cultural ties to California. It has also come to be called "The Coast", especially by New Yorkers, or the "Left Coast," a pun base ...

Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Ad nauseam

Ad nauseam is a Latin term used to describe something that has been continuing "to the point of nausea." For example "This topic has been discussed ad nauseam": it has been discussed extensively and everyone has tired of it. It is a form of proof by assertion. Argumentum ad nauseam or argument from repetition is the false proof of a statement by (prolonged) repetition, possibly by different people. This logical fallacy is commonly used as a form of rhetoric by politicians, and it is one of the mechanisms of ...

Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Biblical criticism

Biblical criticism is a form of Historical Criticism that seeks to analyze the Bible through asking certain questions of the text, such as: Who wrote it? When was it written? To whom was it written? Why was it written? What was the historical, geographical, and cultural setting of the text? How well preserved is the original text? How unified is the text? What sources were used by the author? How was the text transmitted over time? What is the text's genre and from what sociologial setting is it derived? When and how did it come to be ...

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Logos - Use in rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius (c. AD 125 - after 180), Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at Rome. He studied grammar and rhetoric at Rome and philosophy at Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office. His teachers and friends included many distinguished men--Sulpicius Apollinaris, Herodes Atticus and Fronto. His only work, the Noctes Atticae, takes its name from having been begun during the long nights of a winter which he spent in Attica. ...