September 8 After Class

After class I found that I understood the concept of artistic and non-artistic proofs a little better, especially Maxims and enthymeme.  The example of assuming that when something is in the possession of someone it is their property made things more understandable.  Looking at the chart a second time after talking in class about the fact that the left side was more factually based and the right was more conjecture or assumption based, I found it somewhat interesting that an appeal to logos would fit under the category of artistic proofs.  The placement of the appeal to logos was interesting to me being that it is an appeal to logic, and the way I see an appeal to logic is through fact rather than conjecture or assumption.

My classmate's blog to respond to for the September 8th reading is entitled Life's Diversions! (with a side of ENGL 360), I don't know who it belongs to.  I found the part about mood effecting judgment and how that can be related to the post writer's life interesting.  However, the first thing I noticed was that in the list of things Aristotle "delved into" proofs was repeated; if it was purposeful then fine, if not, just because it is a blog doesn't mean one does not have to proofread; though I have also probably had my fair share of mistakes.  Honestly, the grammatical errors made it hard for me to focus on what the blog post actually said.  Also, the writer did not seem to put in much of their own interpretation or view on the reading but rather simply summarized.