RE: Deliberate use of fallacy
March 7, 2015 at 9:02 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2015 at 9:17 pm by Outtahere.)
I might look at the results of how the greatest orators and authors and poets of all time have gone about moving people. Historically, "spiritual" and political movements have been headed by those who used rhetoric and base level emotional metaphor to "grab and move" their audience. From Socrates, to Hitler, to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi to JFK. , Basically everyone who has ever said or written anything worth quoting , has had to use these tactics to create a visceral response from their listeners.
I will add that pure debaters like Stephen Hawking and Neil DeGrass Tyson tend to have a much harder time winning over their audience or doing anything other than "entrenching" their Nay-sayers into their own side of the debate.
Not sure that applies to exactly what you mean , but food for thought.
Doc
I will add that pure debaters like Stephen Hawking and Neil DeGrass Tyson tend to have a much harder time winning over their audience or doing anything other than "entrenching" their Nay-sayers into their own side of the debate.
Not sure that applies to exactly what you mean , but food for thought.
Doc
