Toulmin Method- Content and Form
- Claim: Rhetoric requires understanding a fundamental division between what is communicated through language and how this is communicated.
- Warrants: Many philosophers agree that there is a connection between what is said and the way it is said.
- Qualifiers: There is an artificial division between form and content.
- Rebuttals: It is hard to make a distinction between the content and the form of it being it that there is a difference in the way a person perceives the language being expressed than another.
- Backing: Philosophers like Aristotle and Roman authors have come to conclusions of the distinction they are able to make between the speech known as logos and the style of the speech known as lexis.