Difference between revisions of "Rhetorical deception"

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Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation "has been floating on the Net since the late '90s at least..."
Bubba Business Primer: some more aggressive techniques for real-time verbal debate (effective over the phone or in person)

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-==Overview==
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-[[Rhetorical deception]] is the use of speaking or writing to persuade someone of an opinion based on unsound reasoning.{{seed}}Rhetorical deceptions often play on people's innate [[cognitive bias]]es (see: [[wikipedia:List of cognitive biases|List of cognitive biases]]).
 ==Related Articles==
 * The [[:category:rhetorical deceptions|rhetorical deceptions category]] is a catalogue of pages about specific types of [[rhetorical deception]].