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the art of rhetoric as you conceive it, and if I at all take your meaning, you say that rhetoric is a producer of persuasion, and has therein its whole business and main consummation. Or can you tell us of any other function it can have beyond that of effecting persuasion in the minds of an audience?Gorgias
None at all, Socrates; your definition seems to me satisfactory; that is the main substance of the art.Socrates
Then listen, Gorgias: I, let me assure you,
None at all, Socrates; your definition seems to me satisfactory; that is the main substance of the art.Socrates
Then listen, Gorgias: I, let me assure you,