After reading Gorgias/the sophists, Plato, and Aristotle, I've learned that they all have different meanings and uses of Rhetoric. If I had to pick one that most aligns with how I'm beginning to understand rhetoric, I would have to pick Aristotle. Similar to Plato, he believed that absolute truth is the only true knowledge. The only difference is that Aristotle believes “only scientific demonstration and the analysis of formal logic can arrive at absolute truth” (p. 170). I agree with him because I believe that you have to be taught things in order to know them. In my opinion, no-one is born knowing everything/anything. I believe in order to know what absolute truth is, it has to be obtained/taught. Aristotle also taught many of what he learned, "He taught biology, ethics, politics, rhetoric, and zoology as well as philosophy, and produced may works on these subjects" (p. 170). This shows that he really believed that his meaning of rhetoric was the right one because he was willing to teach others what he has learned in order to help others reach true knowledge.
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