Yeah, I know rhetoric isn't about reading, exactly—I'm looking at the cheerful green spine of a Loeb edition of Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric on my shelf right this moment—but there seems to be a general deficiency in the ability to even follow, let alone construct, arguments or lines of reasoning. Often, bare comprehension of meaning is severely…
…long as you're not doing pure mathematics, you can't always speak on purely logical ground. Aristotle himself, who invented logic and whose picture is on this poster, wrote a different book called The Art of Rhetoric in which he fully approves of deploying e.g. appeals to emotion or authority. Most of these "fallacies" are actually good heuristics within normal discourse: even if they don't produce full logical confidence,…
One might perhaps say that what is probable Is that men experience much that is improbable. - Fragment of a lost play by Agathon, ca. 2,400 years ago, quoted in Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric
This always reminds me of a fragment of lost tragic ancient Greek verse, quoted only in Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric: Often, when the gods bring great prosperity as a gift for men They do so not out of goodwill towards them But so that their ruin may be more conspicuous.
是啊，我知道严格来说修辞并不等同于阅读理解——我这会儿正看着书架上一本 Loeb 丛书版的亚里士多德《修辞学》，封脊是明快的绿色——但现在的普通人似乎普遍缺乏理解论证或推理脉络的能力，更别说去构建了。往往连最字面的意思都严重理解不……
Yeah, I know rhetoric isn't about reading, exactly—I'm looking at the cheerful green spine of a Loeb edition of Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric on my shelf right this moment—but there seems to be a general deficiency in the ability to even follow, let alone construct, arguments or lines of reasoning. Often, bare comprehension of meaning is severely…
……只要你做的不是纯数学，你就不能总站在纯逻辑的立场上说话。发明了逻辑学、头像还印在这张海报上的亚里士多德本人，就写过另一本叫《修辞学》的书，里面完全赞成运用诸如诉诸情感或诉诸权威之类的手段。大部分这类所谓的“谬误”，在日常语境下其实都是很好用的启发式方法：哪怕它们不能带来完全的逻辑确信度……
…long as you're not doing pure mathematics, you can't always speak on purely logical ground. Aristotle himself, who invented logic and whose picture is on this poster, wrote a different book called The Art of Rhetoric in which he fully approves of deploying e.g. appeals to emotion or authority. Most of these "fallacies" are actually good heuristics within normal discourse: even if they don't produce full logical confidence,…
或许可以说，合乎概率的事情便是， 人们会经历很多不合概率的事。 ——约 2400 年前阿伽松一部佚失戏剧的残篇，引用于亚里士多德的《修辞学》
One might perhaps say that what is probable Is that men experience much that is improbable. - Fragment of a lost play by Agathon, ca. 2,400 years ago, quoted in Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric
这总让我想起一段佚失的古希腊悲剧诗句残篇，仅在亚里士多德的《修辞学》中有引用： 往往，当众神将巨大的繁荣赐予凡人， 并非出于对他们的善意， 而是为了让他们毁灭得更加惹人注目。
This always reminds me of a fragment of lost tragic ancient Greek verse, quoted only in Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric: Often, when the gods bring great prosperity as a gift for men They do so not out of goodwill towards them But so that their ruin may be more conspicuous.