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Just asking questions doesn't make you Socrates. - Hoca Camide Persuasion is a science and an art. The science asks us to use sound arguments and good evidence to make a point. The art offers us wide ...

So I have no clue how, the other night at supper, my two kidlets, my visiting father and I got to talking about rhetorical questions (how should I know?), but there it was: By 5:30, we had our soup ...

Ever tried convincing someone to pick your favorite movie for movie night? Or maybe defended pineapple on a pizza? Whether you knew it or not, you were tapping into one of the oldest human traditions: ...

Rhetorical questions in medical encounters functioned to mitigate doctors' use of structural power, such as their necessary abrogation of patients' right to control over the viewing and touching of ...

From Galatians 4:8 Paul abandons reasonable argumentation as a means of persuading the Galatians to return to what they have learnt from him. He takes refuge to the very special personal relationship ...

I’m sure it was a mortifying moment for the folks at CBS News: the moment they realized their tweet was not going to land at all the way they intended it to. The tweet at issue was just 10 words long: ...