Neither of Erasmus' two theological treatises against Luther involves a study of epistemology, but he relied on the skeptical implications of rhetorical discussion to make his case for free will.
The artistic community may not always err on the liberal or progressive side, but very little is off-limits rhetorical discussion.
Often it comes with some admittance of the world's changing attitude on cannabis and the newly discovered medical benefits before launching into a rhetorical discussion that all potheads put to rest long ago—"Marijuana is a revolutionary plant… but does it make you crazy?" No. What makes you crazy is believing everything you read about something even though you've never tried it.
Although he claimed no special expertise in rhetorical learning and had received a traditional scholastic education, not a humanistic one, Luther understood the modes of rhetorical discourse very well and shrewdly shifted the discussion from Erasmus' deliberative mode to Cicero's judicial mode, which aimed not to moderate and reconcile but to win decisions in the law courts.
The perspective of social function is mainly addressed by new rhetoric scholars' discussions of the relationship between text types and rhetorical situations (Coe, 2002) and Swales' (1990, 2004) conceptualization of "communicative purpose".
We prove our commitment to fighting important issues such as FGM, or high male suicide rates, by treating them with respect, and refusing to use them as rhetorical devices when other discussions are happening.
We defer further discussion of rhetorical structure to section 6 (on language generation).
While it never amounted to much more than a rhetorical position in drink-fuelled discussions, thinking of myself as an anarchist absolved me from voting in the 1979 UK general election, my argument being that there was no real discernible difference between Labour and the Tories.
But to anyone looking for reasoned discussion instead of rhetorical posturing, Michael A. Santoro's "Profits and Principles" is a fine place to start.
In this context, Scalia's attack on minority students was not a clumsy rhetorical blunder or well-meaning discussion of educational theory, but entirely consistent with his radical reading of the US constitution – a longstanding view that is far removed from the ideas of liberals who cherish the document's egalitarian spirit.
