Comments on: : Campaign maneuvers… http://rhetorica.net/archives/2390.html Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:36:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: acline http://rhetorica.net/archives/2390.html/comment-page-1#comment-2248 acline Tue, 25 May 2004 19:51:02 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=2390#comment-2248 Michael...we're not talking rational-choice theory here. I merely mentioned it because Riker was the leading light of the Rochester School. You might read my essay on Riker's contribution to rhetoric to see where he and I are coming from in regard to heresthetics. It's linked in the post. Michael…we’re not talking rational-choice theory here. I merely mentioned it because Riker was the leading light of the Rochester School. You might read my essay on Riker’s contribution to rhetoric to see where he and I are coming from in regard to heresthetics. It’s linked in the post.

]]> By: Michael Greer http://rhetorica.net/archives/2390.html/comment-page-1#comment-2247 Michael Greer Tue, 25 May 2004 18:06:52 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=2390#comment-2247 I hope you might clarify what this means in a rhetorical situation: rational-choice theory. As I understand it, rational choice theory works in the manner of a calculus; rhetoric can never work in that sense since it deals only with the probable and the uncertain. To be persuaded of something is to lean toward identification with it, a sort of empathetic move since one's perception is already inclined in that direction. Rational choice works abstractly as an assessement of the accidental properties of substances. Michael Greer I hope you might clarify what this means in a rhetorical situation: rational-choice theory. As I understand it, rational choice theory works in the manner of a calculus; rhetoric can never work in that sense since it deals only with the probable and the uncertain. To be persuaded of something is to lean toward identification with it, a sort of empathetic move since one’s perception is already inclined in that direction. Rational choice works abstractly as an assessement of the accidental properties of substances.

Michael Greer

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