A rhetorical question is a question asked to make a point, rather than get an answer. If you have ever been late, someone might say: 'What time do you call this?' This person doesn't want an answer to ...

Rhetorical questions expressing premises are situated at the intersection of two disciplines whose object of study is argumentation: dialectic and rhetoric. This paper examines arguments in biblical ...

I hope this will be my last post on the pandemic. Not because it is “over,” but because the advice I have to offer is unlikely to be updated beyond this reflection. This weekend I got my second ...

Judy Clarke, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyer, was midway through her closing statement Monday when she posed a rhetorical question. "What does any of this matter when we know that Dzhokhar walked down ...

When did you last hear a speech about the European Union that interested you? Or, if you were not present at the speech’s delivery, when did you read the text of a speech about the European Union that ...