Blog 2: Everything Heuristic

pp. 13: "an aid to discovery"
pp. 432: "any system of investigation"
pp. 80: enriching stock of arguments with; enrich intellectual "copia" (abundant and ready supply of language; arguments or figures available for use on any occasion).
pp. 387: functions of ancient memory: "software is now available that serves the heuristic functions of ancient memory-something that literate storage could not do.
pp. 51: Generations of: "Invention" (the art of discovering all of the arguments made available by a given rhetorical situation) mechanisms ("can serve as a means of") include karios, stasis theory, the commonplaces, and the topics. All "can generate heuristics, which are usually lists of questions that help rhetors to investigate issues systematically."
pp. 51: interested communities serving as: "because it can be used to ascertain the available arguments that are in circulation among interested parties.
pp. 133: potential of commonplaces and: "they (Rhetorical commonplaces) give rise to an inexhaustible supply of proofs. They can be used as major premises for arguments, and like all rhetorical proofs, they can also be used to persuade others to join the community and to accept its commitments." ... "Using it, a rhetor can think through his position on almost any [political] issue."
pp. 72: questions raised by: "Rhetors who work through the questions raised by [this] heuristic in systematic fashion will find that the process: Clarifies their thinking about the point in dispute, forces them to think about the assumptions and values shared by members of their targeted audience, establishes areas in which more research needs to be done, suggests which proofs are crucial to the case, [and] perhaps even points the way toward the most effective arrangement of the proofs."
pp. 126: using topic of degree as: "to discover the wide range of arguments that are available on...almost any issue."