- Occasionally uses a didactic, condescending tone (uses ad hominem attacks)
- Clearly has a definite perspective: doesn't so much provide evidence as speak in presumed certainties
- Liked parsing knowledge into binary trees
- Allows for non-virtuous orators because he severs rhetoric from virtue
- Breaks with Cicero's five canons of rhetoric: gives invention, arrangement, and memory to dialectic and style and delivery to rhetoric
- Was anti-scholasticist
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