Talk:Modes of persuasion

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[edit] Name of the article?

So far as I know, the Aristotelian principles are of persuasion, not of appeal. Persuasion is a far stronger word and in this respect the classical rhetoric was also considered. If this article is about classical rhetoric discussion I would suggest beginning it appropriately citing Aristotle On Rhetoric:

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. [...] Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. [...] Secondly, persuasion may come through the hearers, when the speech stirs their emotions. [...] Thirdly, persuasion is effected through the speech itself when we have proved a truth or an apparent truth by means of the persuasive arguments suitable to the case in question.

-- Aethralis 07:54, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Changed the name of the article accordilgly --Aethralis 13:13, 12 January 2006 (UTC)