Artifice Analysis

The Stages of Deception used as a way of Persuasion and the thought of Hope

Members of Congress and the President used the strategy of persuasion when attempting to encourage the passing of certain legislation. Players attempting to persuade other players by emphasizing how both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party would benefit if this legislation was passed. There were many conversations where a player would agree to pass a certain piece of legislation in their chamber if the other chamber agreed to pass a different piece of legislation favored by the first players, so that both of their interests would be heard. Lastly, I observed the strategy of persuasion between Democratic and Republican members of the Budget Committee in the House. Players would attempt to encourage other players to give more money to a certain governmental area by using the information presented in letters sent from individuals or groups of individuals calling for an increase in budget in their respective areas.

7. Bluffing can be ethical, depending on the circumstances and how it is employed. In fact, Beatty Samuelson, in Essentials of Business Law, points out the “Kantian evasion or plater”, which serves as the basis for deceiving someone in an ethical way. She describes it as “a truthful statement that is nonetheless misleading” (36). For instance, Kant’s example of a murderer coming to our door -asking for someone who is in our own home and who he wants to kill – illustrates an instance when answering questions fully could lead to terrible consequences (36). In that case, Samuelson argues, telling the truth and pointing the killer to the victim would be very costly, so it is better to employ Kant’s evasion principle and reply with a truthful, but misleading statement.

David Fahrenthold, a reporter for the Washington Post, picked up where I left off, and took it a step further by using Don’s favorite social media tool against him, when Fahrenthold live-tweeted as he fact-checked the Non-Donating Don the Con’s actual charitable donations. In a series of tweets, Fahrenthold said he was looking

Persuasion is very easy to get people to do the wrong things. Persuasion is easy because if you are good at speaking to people then the listener will become intrigued enough to change there original decision. Also persuasion makes people think if they are doing the right thing. Persuasion can also trick your mind so that may be one key to why the conspirators used persuasion.

"Get on the goddamn phone. I know you got an intercom system. Call up there and tell Elvis I wanna visit with him. Who the hell does he think he is? Tell him the Killer's here to see him!" Jerry Lee

Deceit is an art that can be mastered through practice, but unfortunately many people are already well versed in this art form. It leads to destroyed friendships, destroyed relationships, and destroyed careers. It is something that resides within us all, but some choose to practice it regularly while others have suppressed its usage to a minimum. Whatever the case maybe, we can all tap into our bizarre quality of being able to trick people. Mendacity is a major theme in the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

In “Is Persuasion Dead” published in The Opinion Pages of the New York Times, guest columnist Matt Miller was raising an alert for current “Persuasion” in the politics. Miller deplores that ninety percent of political conversation amounts to dueling "talking points." Best-selling books reinforce what folks thought when they bought them. The purpose of most political speech is not to persuade but to win, be it power, ratings, celebrity or even cash (Miller). That is agitating people without deep consideration for its essence. The past examples are showing that; Bill Clinton's case on health care and George Bush's Social Security plan. The author strongly criticized that was supported by “savage”(Miller). However, himself also were persuaded

when make reject and refused for any action, case or situation and make feedback depends on the believes of person that’s call: Resisting contrary evidence. when you are looking for knowledge and information with selectivity and recall it in sake of confirming one’s hypothesis that’s lead to confirming evidences. The human being characterized by different believes where that effect on the acceptance claim where could reject. the confirmation bias became familiar in these days because many of persons trying to reduce the critical thinking of other persons.

Manipulate is to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's own advantage. (Merriam Webster) Manipulation is the process aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics (The Intelligence of Persuasion). Manipulation could be considered exploitative, abusive, evil and deceptive." A person who persuades and a person who manipulates may have the same goal in mind, but the process is different. Rhetorical manipulation can be good and bad. A good rhetorical manipulation is trying to get someone to stop smoking or to go get help. A bad rhetorical manipulation can be someone to vote for a president even if he is not the best

Yule defines hedges as “expressions we use to indicate what [we are] saying may not be totally accurate.” (1996, p. 38) The reason why people tend to use hedges is to preserve the cooperative principle, where speakers share the assumption that what is said will be true, relevant, and accurate. (1996, p. 37) Basically, by using hedges, a speaker, in a way, relieves him or herself from any responsibility he or she may have had for the truthfulness of an utterance. After the long discussion between Martin and Corene about what steps should be taken to fix the computer problem, they eventually come to the agreement that ITS should be called. However, as a way of continuing to challenge Corene’s authority and her credibility, Martin responds to Corene’s suggestion of calling ITS with “if you want you could call ITS.” (Reynolds, 2012, 3:18-3:20) By starting his utterance the way he did, Martin is putting the responsibility of the decision on Corene.

Being a trickster can be done in different ways, depending what you’re doing it for. Mark Twain and High Horse both have similar and different reasons and ways of getting the job completed. Mark wanted to be better than Hicks because he was tired of watching Hicks become a hero and of people crowding around him, so one night he pretended to be gazed at the disk and when the professor picked him, his imagination took the act further than Hick’s honest act and people loved it. “At the end of my first half- hour Hicks was a thing of the past, a fallen hero, a broken idol, and I knew it and was glad and said in my heart,”Success to crime!”.” High Horse was a trickster because all he wanted was the old man’s daughter, but he couldn’t get the father’s

It is during this manipulation that liars leak clues on a subconscious level often many of them.

Daniel H. Cohen likes to argue. He says that the more you argue the better you will become at it. Then he says that even though he argues more for some reason he is losing. The first part of academic arguments is that finding out what do you win when you win an argument, and do you really want to win. There are three are three models for arguments which include arguments-as-war which includes yelling. Then there is arguments as proof which includes things such as math problems. The last model for argument is arguments as performances which includes an audience and iis seen a lot in politics. A model that dominates is the argument at war because it’s dominates how we talk, think, and conduct our arguments. A problem about this model is that

The trickery quality associated with manipulation enables the phenomenon to appear in almost infinite variations and under many different guises, from a powerful weapon in the service of indecent propaganda to altruistic measures in psychotherapy and even education. Indeed, social scientists have pointed out that an effective change in human decision-making and behavior cannot