Communication and rhetoric for complex systems projects

Elizabeth Newton study on tapping songs

Significant overestimate by information sharers

Rhetoric vs philosophy

Rhetoric is sharing of knowledge

Aristotle

The opportune moment to place a convincing argument

Cicero

Introduces Romans to Greek philosophy

Five canons of rhetoric

Invention

Arrangement

Style

Memory

Delivery

Where does one find the arguments?

My answers

Stakeholder needs analysis

Find the problem

Deduction

Non rhetoric

Data

Testimony

Laws

Maxims

Rhetoric

Reasoning

Appeals

Stasis

Attributed to Aristotle

Grows from the opposition of agitation and denial

Framework

Fact

Definition

Causation

Value

Policy

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Modern form of stasis

A useful interrogation of any proposal