Quote: "Formal rhetoric would be a set of rules and devices for persuading anybody about anything. If one desires a certain response, one uses a certain device, or 'trick' as the enemies of the art would put it."
Question: Are there any theorists we have discussed in class that remind you of the "enemies" Weaver is referring to here?
I definitely feel like Weaver is referring to the Sophists and other such moral relativists, if not for the use of the word "trick", then the fact that he relied upon a number of Platonic and Aristotelian ideas in his theorizing.
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