alt Hacker NewsIt's the mathematical version of learning rhetoric.
Rhetoric teaches how to argue with words. Statistics is the same, but with numbers.
It's the mathematical version of learning rhetoric.
Rhetoric teaches how to argue with words. Statistics is the same, but with numbers.
Not quite.
Rhetoric is persuasion under the presupposition that what you are trying to persuade someone of is true. Sophistry is indifferent to the truth and is merely concerned with results. Rhetoric respects the humanity of the interlocutor. Sophistry seeks to exploit him.