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It's the mathematical version of learning rhetoric. Rhetoric teaches how to argue with words. Statistics is the same, but with numbers.
by HPsquared 22d ago
It's the mathematical version of learning rhetoric.
Rhetoric teaches how to argue with words. Statistics is the same, but with numbers.
- lo_zamoyski 22d agoNot quite. Rhetoric is persuasion under the presupposition that what you are trying to persuade someone of is true. Sophistry is indifferent to the truth and is merely concerned with results. Rhetoric respects the humanity of the interlocutor. Sophistry seeks to exploit him.
- hinkley 21d agoNo longer true. Rhetoric is now an epithet and when used as such means sophistry. Most people use it as an epithet.