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Bacon

  • Invention in rhetoric was recall, not making new knowledge (scientific empiricism made new knowledge)
  • Three faculties
    • Reason
    • Memory
    • Imagination
  • Four intellectual arts
    • Inquiry/invention
    • Judgment 
    • Memory
    • Delivery
  • Four idols
    • Tribe (dangers of positivism) (nature)
    • Cave (subjectivity) (nurture)
    • Marketplace (complications of idea exchange, misconception, strictures of language)
    • Theatre (errors based on mistaking any particular system for the whole thing)
    • Rhetoric “applies reason to the imagination to move the will.”

Course Information

Rhetoric and Culture
ENG 552-001
MO 204
T 6:30–9:15

Instructor Information

Dr. Jeremy Tirrell
tirrellj@uncw.edu
Office: MO 161
Office Hours: TR 12:00-2:00 (and by appointment)