Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not f…

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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe. ✨ Plato, Harold North Fowler, Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, Robert Gregg Bury (1953). Plato
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