SolitaryWalker
Tenured roisterer
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In a vernacular sence. And rhetorics deffinately isn't just about that. Well, not the way I learned it anyway, wich is the ancient form... Rhetorics in a more modern form seems to have lost it's wild hairs, something wich I strongly deplore. Most modern rhetoricians would agree with you, though.
BTW, I don't want to leave a wrong impression. I don't employ hardcore rhetorics when actually doing philosophy. Just style, form and layout.
Well rhetoric in literature could then be used for quality expression, this is where we could see the beauty in language. But I think we better still keep that stuff away from science and philosophy anyways. I suspect that the ancient form of rhetoric has rescinded in the present era because a much higher premium has been placed on clarity of exposition than there has been before. So no Hegels or Heideggers will be getting their ideas out to the market in the near future, thank God!