"In building his theory of rhetoric around the syllogism despite the problems involved in deductive inference Aristotle stresses the fact that rhetorical discourse is discourse directed toward knowing, toward truth not trickery... If rhetoric is so clearly related to dialectic, a discipline whereby we are enabled to examine inferentially generally accepted opinions on any problem whatsoever, then it is the rhetorical syllogism [i.e., the enthymeme which moves the rhetorical process into the domain of reasoned activity, or the kind of rhetoric Plato accepted later in the Phaedrus."
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William M.A. Grimaldi in: Studies in the Philosophy of Aristotle's Rhetoric."Landmark Essays on Aristotelian Rhetoric, F. Steiner, 1972, p. 85-86
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