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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. He lives in downtown Los Angeles.
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Argumentation Archive
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“People Are Really Smart” Not The Most Compelling Explanation For Why Rank Propaganda Fails
PsyBlog calls out Fahrenheit 9/11 for being bad argumentation and open propaganda, and then goes on to ask why Bush still lost: This is a preview of “People Are Really Smart” Not The Most Compelling Explanation For Why Rank Propaganda Fails. Read the full post (483 words, 1 image, estimated 1:56 mins reading time) -
Two-Thirds Of Americans Are Fairly Stupid
You have got to be fucking kidding us: Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found. And that’s not the only conspiracy theory with a huge number of true believers in the United States. The poll found that more than one out of [...] -
Severity Bias In Doctor-Patient Relationships Unhelpful To Glib, Non-Rhetorical Medical Ethics
We really don’t have much to say about this beyond the obligatory “this is why it’s important for doctors to have rhetorical and argumentative training.” But it’s about a fallacy that affects judgment in the context of a medical science controversy, ergo: This is a preview of Severity Bias In Doctor-Patient Relationships Unhelpful To Glib, Non-Rhetorical [...] -
Habermas: The Ideal Speech Situation Is A Bad Model For The Ideal Speech Situation
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What Isn’t Argument?
We’ve been going back and forth with a colleague who has a near-reflexive need to want to expand the horizon of what counts as “argument”. As near as we can tell, argument for him is present whenever speakers gesture toward the form of an argument – that is, when they go through the motions of [...]
