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Robert M. Pirsig Quote

You, sir, what are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed? But Phaedrus is prepared. Forensic, deliberative and epideictic, he answers calmly. What are the epideictic techniques? The technique of identifying likenesses, the technique of praise, that of encomium and that of amplification.

Robert M. Pirsig

You, sir, what are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed? But Phaedrus is prepared. Forensic, deliberative and epideictic, he answers calmly. What are the epideictic techniques? The technique of identifying likenesses, the technique of praise, that of encomium and that of amplification.

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