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  • For arguing is indeed formulaic, so much so that the ancient Greeks and Romans, who developed the art of rhetoric, catalogued every last linguistic trick, including the rhetorical question itself, which they called erotema, that you might deploy.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • For arguing is indeed formulaic, so much so that the ancient Greeks and Romans, who developed the art of rhetoric, catalogued every last linguistic trick, including the rhetorical question itself, which they called erotema, that you might deploy.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • erotema, now with the force of sarcastic imputation

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • erotema, now with the force of sarcastic imputation

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

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  • To affirm or deny a point strongly by asking it as a question. (Silva Rhetoricae)

    May 17, 2008