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Aristotle, the Rhetoric, Book I

  • 1. or Aristotle, Our Other Contemporary
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  • 4. R enthymeme As melody and harmony are to the musical artist and color, line and mass to the visual one, so are enthymemes to the Aristotelian rhetorical artist. Argument: An assertion + evidence for believing it. Enthymeme: A combination of statements that explicitly makes an argument while implicitly evoking the worldview within which that argument makes sense.