Category: Blog
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“Shot straight from the rhetorical hip of honesty and humanity, this will probably be one of the most important books published this year.” Launch parties, book reviews, and podcasts! The past few months have been a whirlwind of book-related joy! Of all the book-related excitement, the most thrilling moment was undoubtably the release of my…
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Join us for an evening of history and rhetoric as Guy Doza unveils his latest book, The Language of Evil. The event is happening at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on Thursday, 24 April, at 7pm.
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Aristotle categorised speeches into three rough categories: Of course, nowadays, most speech will include an element of all three. However, there are still speeches which are very much epideictic. I recently listened to one. It was the Vice Chancellor’s annual address at the University of Cambridge: known as the October Speech. Any speechwriter will tell…
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The false dichotomy The false dichotomy is a logical fallacy that presents two sides with no middle ground. In my book, How to Apologise for Killing a Cat, I used the example of the head of the United States National Rifle Association (NRA) who argued that people who didn’t support the rights to bear arms ‘hate…
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