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RhetoricAristotle(Translated by W. Rhys Roberts)Book I1 Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are con-cerned with such things as come, more or less, within the generalken of all men and belong to no definite science. Accordinglyall men make use, more or less, of both; for to a certain extent allmen attempt to discuss statements and to maintain them, to defendthemselves and to attack others. Ordinary people do this either atrandom or through practice and from acquired habit. Both waysbeing possible, the subject can plainly be handled systematically,for it is possible to inquire the reason why some speakers succeedthrough practice and others spontaneously; and every one will atonce agree that such an inquiry is the function of an , the framers of the current treatises on rhetoric have cons-tructed but a small portion of that art. The modes of persuasionare the only true constituents of the art: everything else is me-rely accessory.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any gi-ven case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. Every other art can instruct or persuade about its own particular subject-matter; for instance, medicine about what is healthy and unhealthy, geometry about the properties of magni-
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