• Choose one of the five following quotes, and explain what you think aristotle means, in 200-300 words. if you can, illustrate your point with a real or hypothetical example. try not to repeat what others before you have said -- the good choices may go quickly! in any case, post your own response by the end of the day thursday, and reply to two other class members' posts by the end of the day sunday. for extra credit, you can post an example of your own of a flawed syllogism, and explain what's wrong with it. from book i, chapter i: "the arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case. consequently if the rules for trials which are now laid down in some states -- especially in well-governed states -- were applied everywhere, such people would have nothing to say.” "in general, then, the judge should, we say, be allowed to decide as few things as possible.” "the true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.” from chapter 2: "of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. the first kind depends on the personal character of the speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, or apparent proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.” "the subjects of our deliberation are such as seem to present us with alternative possibilities: about things that could not have been, and cannot now or in the future be, other than they are, nobody who takes them to be of this nature wastes his time in deliberation.”

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