The Epistemology of Rhetoric: Plato, Doxa and Post-Truth

Erik Bengtson

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Is persuasion a way of knowing? Bengtson goes back to Plato's quarrel between opinion and knowledge to rethink the role of rhetoric, and asks what that old debate can teach us about argument in a post-truth age.

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