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So the newspeek/social rhetoric over ‘mass’ shootings begins yet again.

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It is not rhetoric. It is eristic. Rhetoric seeks truth. Eristic seeks to defeat the opponent.

Merriam-Webster doesn’t use the word truth or any synonyms for truth, but in fact mentions insincere.. therefore dougie, this eristic conversation is finished.
 

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The lecture continues. Do not indulge the dictionary fallacy, that a dictionary defines proper use of a word.

Discussion is the proper word thank you...might wish to check your Funk and Wagnalls dougie on your word usage!
http://www.funkandwagnalls.com/

Oh dougie...i know what your problem is...the word lecture is from the late latin period 2-3 AD not the ancient greek in BC era so the word might be known in your vocabulary.
 
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It's an election year. Anyone NOT expect more and more mass attacks ?

If so hold on to your hat, there will be more and more frequent until the election is over or the Senate caves in on gun control.
 

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Quite coincidentally I have just come across “individual laws of Lycurgus were called ‘rhetras’.”

ETA much later: Even more unlikely, “Archilochus lost his shield as he fled a lost battle, and he remarked of the fact:

’Some Thracian now has the pleasure of owning the shield, I unwillingly threw into the bushes. It was a perfectly good shield, but I had to save myself. Let it go. Why care about that shield? I will get another just as good.’

It says something of the changing mood of the Spartans that such sentiments were now unacceptable.
[ ... ]
... importance of holding the battleline shoulder-to-shoulder with one’s comrades, the Spartans had no time for self-declared ‘cowards’. When Archilochus visited Sparta, the Ephors ordered him out of town. (Valerius Maximus 6.3) “

(Excerpt from: "Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation" by Philip Matyszak. Scribd. This material may be protected by copyright.)
 
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It is not rhetoric. It is eristic. Rhetoric seeks truth. Eristic seeks to defeat the opponent.
The lecture continues. Do not indulge the dictionary fallacy, that a dictionary defines proper use of a word.
Quite coincidentally I have just come across “individual laws of Lycurgus were called ‘rhetras’.”
(Excerpt from: "Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation" by Philip Matyszak. Scribd. This material may be protected by copyright.)

Thanks for your enlighten commentary ~ nothing of substance ~ but commentary nonetheless!
 
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