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Philosophy affects what arguments are persuasive

A person’s intellectual background shapes what arguments persuade them. Of the facets which comprise a person’s culture, the philosophy of knowledge most shapes the style of argument likely to influence that person. English citizens were comprehensively shaped by the modernization of Aristotle’s “application-first” thinking by the English philosophers of the 13th and 16th centuries ((Meyer, pg. 97)). Across the English channel, Descartes instituted an opposing philosophy of thought characterized by “principles-first” thinking which reigns among European nations to this day.…