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These days? A good chunk of all arguments are a variant of the myth of the golden age, which has been around since the Greeks. There's a saying that only thre
by qsort 6y ago
These days?
A good chunk of all arguments are a variant of the myth of the golden age, which has been around since the Greeks.
There's a saying that only three books have ever been written: voyage, love and war. I suspect the number of rethorical arguments is the same order of magnitude.
- whatshisface 6y agoThat's true in the abstract, but in the concrete there are unique lines of argument, contingent on details specific to a topic, that get invented shortly after the topic arises. It is at that level that you can literally have an indexed pamphlet to guide you verbatim through 90% of dialogues. Injecting contextual facts into 500BC rhetorical forms is a little more human-level than repeating other people's filled-out Pnyxian madlibs, an activity that is a little below machine-level.