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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