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you are beginning to see the rhetorical possibilties. There does indeed seem to be a 5th type of discourse interchange, and that is absurdity.

Absurdity is a refusal to accept logic. But it has a very strict rhetorical purpose: to cause the brain of the recipient to jump out of the stuck groove that they are in, in the hope of reframing the argument in favour of the sender.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 05:54:48 PM EST
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And this is nothing compared to what goes on in Malta.

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 06:36:45 PM EST
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The use of addition in:
G -> H
G -> (H ^ J)
is called "improper" because the letter that is added is not added to the whole line.  It turns out, however, that even though the addition rule is not correctly applied, the inference is still valid.  Hence, this inference is not called "invalid," as the others are.  As for the last example, a DeMorgans Rule will be presented that will allow us to remove parentheses preceeded by negation signs.  But even after the parentheses have been removed, the inference remains valid.

And this is nothing compared to what goes on in Malta.

by ATinNM on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 08:29:21 PM EST
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You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue May 1st, 2007 at 03:59:15 AM EST
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