[Applause] I'm going to begin this speech by recounting a story I heard from philosophy grad online. One day, his professor gave him and his students two hours to justify all of their long-held beliefs. Beliefs that they would die on a hill for.He then prevented he then proceeded to logically dismantle each and every single one of them. It was grueling. Imagine having to hear aha that's a bandwagon fallacy when saying something as simple as I like democracy.Not fun. But you might be wondering whether there ...

Rhetoric often relies on rhythm and pauses for emphasis and meaning: few actors race through the soliloquies in “Hamlet”, for instance. Yet for many, to speed or not to speed is no longer a question https://t.co/T3ELz9gPLr ...

After teaching college English courses for almost 15 years, one of my favorite lessons to still teach and something that my students don't just absolutely hate learning about is rhetoric. Rhetoric is that thing that we hear about and we often immediately associate it with things like politicians and lawyers and presidents and stuff like that and that does count but rhetoric is a lot more than just that. Rhetoric is actually argument and communication. It's the moving pieces that exist within arguments and c ...