Exam III Flashcards
While the main activity of inventio Plase I is the search for ideas, the main activity of Inventio Phase 2 is _______________ which is then used todefend your _____________
Developing Proofs tentative thesis
“Proofs” are defined as _________ AND the ___________
evidence….DEMONSTRATION of evidence
SOURCE???: “Hearers themselves become the instruments of proof” so you must be “flexible” as a rhetor. Explain this.
Aristotle
You can use your knowledge and understanding to the hearer’s logical, ethical and emotional bentand shape your argument to appeal to these realms of proof. You must, however, be able and willing to bend to this and not be stuck in only one way of making your argument.
Youmust be ___________-oriented if you want to be in a rhetorical exchange
OTHER
The most influential force available to you as a rhetor is __________________ because____________
the MIND OF THE LISTNER
You can tailor yourargument to the way that the listener’s mind will think and receive your logical, ethical and emotional arguments.
Proof is NOT to be equated with ______!
Facts
Proof = __________ (the inartistic part)+ _________ (the artistic part)Explain this.
Evidence + the Demonstration of Evidence”Proof,” as a single,COMPLETE object or goal of your argument, requires that you provide both the INARTISTIC PROOF (evidence) and the ARTICTIC PROOF (demonstration of that evidence)[Maybe just as the LIQUID of lemonade is made up of two different types of liquid:WATER LIQUID and LEMON JUICE LIQUID]
Aristotle: “Two types of proof: 1. ________ Proof 2. ________ Proof
InartisticArtistic”Proof,” as a single,COMPLETE object or goal of your argument, requires that you provide both the INARTISTIC PROOF (evidence) and the ARTICTIC PROOF (demonstration of that evidence)[Maybe just as the LIQUID of lemonade is made up of two different types of liquid:WATER LIQUID and LEMON JUICE LIQUID]
Inartistic Proofs are _______ by the rhetor
NOT created
Artistic Proofs are _______ by the rhetor
Created
The IMPORTANT proof is the _____ one
Artistic
Inartistic Proofs include (also be able to explain why they are inartistic proofs):
_______
_______
_______ (MUST be shown to be reliable)
_______ (must be shown to be credible – and from an authority in the particular area)
_______ (items that may sound like proofs but are fake…forced)
_______ (added by Spencer)
Law (you must show that a law exists if you intend to demonstrate that somebody broke it) Contracts (you must show that the contract exists and what it says…) Documents (you must show that thedocuments exists and whatthey says…) Testimony (must support the point you intend to argue) Statements extracted by torture (not surrendered by willing means but may support an argument) Images (“show” what happened)
_____ (which are __________ proofs) do NOT speak for themselves, rather, you must DEMONSTRATE what they mean! That is, they must be ______
FactsInartisticEnergized
SOURCE???: Rhetoric = “Giving ______to the______”
Richard Weaver
effectiveness ….truth
SOURCE???:In his book “The Humiliation of the Word” the author states that “Images are _______________ . Words, however, move us ______________.”Whis is this?
Jacques Ellul
in theREALM of realityinto theREALM of TruthImages ARE real, BUT without words to explain them, they not particularly valuable or accurate. Those words may be provided to us (written, spoken) or EVEN IN OUR MIND since when we look at an image we are thinking something in words, that is, what we see happening there.
ARTISTIC PROOFS:
- ________
- ________
- ________
- Pathos 2. Ethos 3. Logical Argument (Logos)
SOURCE???: Logos is the _____ of ALL thought and action. What does this mean?
Think of Logos as equal to _______ or ___________.
Logos is MUCH BIGGER than ____________
Isseling (quoting Isocrates)
Hegemoon(Logos directs …..or has POWER OVER…all thought and action)
The Holy Spirit or “The Force”
Logical argument
The relationship between the Artistic Proofs is as follows:In the concept of _____, Logical Argument is _______ and conditioned by ______
Mythos…based in Pathos…ethos
Mythos is ___________. Thesignificance of “Mythos”is that some things can ONLY be communicated by _____ and ALL argument takes place in the context of _________.
“Narrative Story”
Story
SOME story
SOURCE???: wrote “Myth Became Fact” (essay) based on the belief that “There are advantages to narrative story (myth).” The author goes on to say that “The human dilemma is to _______ OR __________.” He means that the more we try to think about something the less we can experience it.Demonstrate an understanding of this with an example.
CS Lewis to taste and not to know OR to know and not to tasteMay be considered as follows:Tasting is experiencing whereas Knowing is studying, reading about or discussing. Consider a historical event. You can study it or you may have experienced it but could not do both at the same time. Yet a story about it brings a degree of both.
SOURCE???: Myth is the thing that comes closest to allowing us to _____________
CS Lewis know and taste”May be considered as follows:Tasting is experiencing whereas Knowing is studying, reading about or discussing. Consider a historical event. You can study it or you may have experienced it but could not do both at the same time. Yet a story about it brings a degree of both.
SOURCE???: In the “Abolition of Man” the author’s statement _______________ relates artistic proofsin the same manner as doesthe statement: “In the concept of Mythos, Logical Argument is based in Pathos and conditioned by ethos”
CS Lewis “THE HEAD RULES THE BELLY THROUGH THE CHEST”
In the statement “THE HEAD RULES THE BELLY THROUGH THE CHEST,”
Head = __A___ or (_____)
Belly = ___B__ or (_____)
Chest = __C___ or (_____).”
This is a ______ Statement – that is, the way it SHOULD be. This may be restated as: “__A___ rules our ___B__ through __C___” but “Contemporary culture wants to cut out the ______ part”
Reason or (Logical Argument) Instincts or (Pathos) Trained Sentiment or (Ethos) prescriptive “Reason rules our Instincts through Trained Sentiment” Chest
SOURCE???: In thestory“The Abolition of Man” the author asserts that people in power will find a ______to do whatever it is that they want to do because they eliminate ________.
REASON Ethos - or the chest