{"id":6343,"date":"2016-06-19T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/19\/passion-and-cogency\/"},"modified":"2016-06-19T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T17:39:09","slug":"passion-and-cogency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/19\/passion-and-cogency\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion and Cogency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Passionate presentation does not add to the cogency of one&#39;s arguments. &#0160;But neither does it detract. &#0160;One&#39;s audience, however, will likely mistake the presence of passion for the absence of reason. &#0160;So the best policy in most circumstances is to present one&#39;s arguments in an emotionally neutral way. &#0160;Or at least that used to be the best policy. &#0160;In this age of the short attention span things may be different.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passionate presentation does not add to the cogency of one&#39;s arguments. &#0160;But neither does it detract. &#0160;One&#39;s audience, however, will likely mistake the presence of passion for the absence of reason. &#0160;So the best policy in most circumstances is to present one&#39;s arguments in an emotionally neutral way. &#0160;Or at least that used to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/19\/passion-and-cogency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passion and Cogency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-of-the-mind","category-reason-and-rationality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}