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To: Ilaine who wrote (35739)	3/20/2004 4:20:25 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793820

Definately! Every college student should take at least an introductory logic course. Just teaching the basic formal and informal fallacies, and the differences between deductive and inductive reasoning and their weaknesses - simple critical thinking - should be essential. Rhetoric is more the study of good argumentation as style, rather than form. Medieval students studied grammar and rhetoric in preparation for writing in the proper way for the State, or preaching for the Church. I think what we today call forensics (speech and debate) is closest. Derek