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*'''Paradeigma''': use of example or evidence to prove a point [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]]
*'''Paradeigma''': use of example or evidence to prove a point [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]]
*'''Pathos''': the appeal to emotion.  When people accept a claim based on how it makes them feels=, they are acting on pathos.  A majority of advertisements and arguments in the popular press rely heavily on pathetic appeals.  Although the pathetic appeal can be manipulative, it is the cornerstone of moving people to action. (Persuasive appeals: [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]]
*'''Pathos''': the appeal to emotion.  When people accept a claim based on how it makes them feels=, they are acting on pathos.  A majority of advertisements and arguments in the popular press rely heavily on pathetic appeals.  Although the pathetic appeal can be manipulative, it is the cornerstone of moving people to action. (Persuasive appeals: [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]]
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*'''Pejorative''': a word or phrase that has negative connotations or that is intended to disparage or belittle: a pejorative word or phrase (see [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]]
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*'''Phonemes''': any of the abstract units of the phonetic system of a language that correspond to a set of similar speech sounds (as the velar \k\ of cool and the palatal \k\ of keel) which are perceived to be a single distinctive sound in the language (see [["Nature of the Linguistic Sign" by Ferdinand de Saussure]])
*'''Pisteis''': proofs, persuasive appeals (logos, ethos, pathos); artistic (logical, logos, nonlogical, ethos and pathos) and inartistic (tangible evidence) proofs [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]]
*'''Pisteis''': proofs, persuasive appeals (logos, ethos, pathos); artistic (logical, logos, nonlogical, ethos and pathos) and inartistic (tangible evidence) proofs [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]]
*'''Poeis''': fine arts [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]]
*'''Poeis''': fine arts [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]]
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*'''Priori''': relating to or derived by reasoning from self-evident propositions (see [["Nature of the Linguistic Sign" by Ferdinand de Saussure]])
*'''Proofs''': Justification, reasoning, argumentation. (Perelman [[February 10 Class Notes]])
*'''Proofs''': Justification, reasoning, argumentation. (Perelman [[February 10 Class Notes]])

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