On Sat, 1 May 2004, Ted Winslow wrote:
> In any event, the soldiers in Iraq were behaving more in accord with the
> ethics of Foucault and Zizek than with those of Aristotle and Kant,
> weren't they?
"Of the modes of persuasion some are technical, others non-technical. By the latter I mean such things as are not supplied by the speaker but are there at the outset -- witnesses, evidence given under torture, written contracts, and so on."
Aristotle, _Rhetoric_, Book I, 1355, 36-38.