Plato's Universality can be explained as the seeking of that universal thing, the ideal form as compared to a reproduction. ... For Plato, Universals is the referent of the concrete and unchanging thing for all things. ... He stated that if Plato is the universal, then it is in fact Plato that is predicated of Socrates when we say Socrates is human. ... On an article from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Professor Peter king from the University of Toronto wrote that for Abelard, "The word refers to the item directly by naming or nominating it," and the sentence, "is a c...

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There are many definitions for rhetoric, but in accordance with the ancient Greek philosophy, rhetoric is the art of persuasion, and a rhetorician is one who makes the profession of using rhetoric. ... Socrates in "Plato Gorgias" says, "And if anyone asks of us what sort of persuasion, and about what, - we shall answer, persuasion which teaches the quantity of odd and even" (483). ... Socrates says, "Seeing, then, that not only rhetoric works by persuasion, but other arts do the same, as in the case of a painter" (Plato Gorgias, 483). ...

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