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Not quite. Rhetoric is persuasion under the presupposition that what you are trying to persuade someone of is true. Sophistry is indifferent to the truth and i
by lo_zamoyski 1mo ago
Not quite.
Rhetoric is persuasion under the presupposition that what you are trying to persuade someone of is true. Sophistry is indifferent to the truth and is merely concerned with results. Rhetoric respects the humanity of the interlocutor. Sophistry seeks to exploit him.
- hinkley 1mo agoNo longer true. Rhetoric is now an epithet and when used as such means sophistry. Most people use it as an epithet.