Sketches of ideas
The law system carries with itself one of the holiest missions of administration of justice, in pursuit of ideal goodness, sometimes, besieged by, inter alia, natural instincts, earthly desires.
The engraved letters, heavily above massive stone pillars supporting the Byzantine architecture, speak for themselves all the time
Conventional procedures are invented to interfere in the process of separating the facts from the fancies. Since even though we have only the quasi-contact with the facts, we are prone to take them seriously, ignoring their provisional quality. Rhetoric, rooted in the Western convention of debates, seems to be in a position to confirm one's quasi-contact or dissolve others.
Then we have fallacies, a form of ARGUMENTATION which appears convincing but is logically flawed.
Hamblin (1970: 12) says, ‘A fallacious argument, as almost every account from Aristotle onwards tells you, is one that seems to be valid but is not so’. including argumentum ad baculum (using threats as a form of persuasion), argumentum ad hominem (attacking someone’s character to refute their position), argumentum ad misericordiam (unjustifiably appealing for compassion), argumentum ad populum or pathetic fallacy (appealing to populist feelings or the existing prejudices of a group, or pointing out that because many people believe something then it must be true), argumentum ad ignorantiam (arguing that because a standpoint has not being refuted, then it is true), argumentum ad verecundian (misplaced reference to authorities who are not qualified), secundum quid (making a generalization based on an unrepresentative sample), post hoc, ergo propter hoc (mixing a temporally chronological relationship with a causal one), petition principia also known as circular argument or begging the question (using a yet-to-be-proven assumption as the starting point of an argument), rigged questions (asking a question containing a PRESUPPOSITION, for example, ‘when did you stop beating your wife?), ignoratio elenchi (evading the argument by discussing a different and irrelevant point), straw man fallacy (inaccurately representing an opponent’s argument in order to make it appear weak), fallacies in dictione (changing the interpretation of an ambiguous utterance to weaken an opponent’s standpoint).
