Why speakers shouldn’t always pander to their audience. In the Rhetoric (4th century BCE), Aristotle identified the three modes of persuasion, or persuasive appeals, that are in: the character of the speaker (ethos), the emotions of the audience (pathos), and the argument itself (logos). Ethos, pathos, and logos are referred to as artistic means of persuasion, and […]

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