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Quotation from Rhetoric by Aristotle
“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion”
Rhetoric, Book I, Ch. 2, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924)
Aristotle's formal definition, which makes rhetoric a power of discovery rather than a guarantee of victory.
Citation: "Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion" — Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I, Ch. 2, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924). (id aristotle-rhetoric-q4)
