Bellevue College Commons | Frank Hatstat | Activity https://commons.bellevuecollege.edu/members/fhatstat/activity/ Activity feed for Frank Hatstat. Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:46:39 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 5e3885f7f671b5291602ca195e817c86 Frank Hatstat posted a new activity comment https://commons.bellevuecollege.edu/wrussellpayne/2025/07/07/critical-thinking-note-33-rhetoric-wins/#comment-27 Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:14:56 -0700 Dare I give your thoughts a “like”? (I could not resist)

As usual your ideas and focus are cogent, thoughtful, and elegant. In law we use the notion of “make an argument” all the time. However, in more general discourse and in instruction I find I am regularly explaining the notion of an “argument” as not the power of mere persuasion by…[Read more]

In reply to - William Payne wrote a new post on the site W. Russ Payne Critical Thinking Note 34: Rhetoric WinsWe occupy a rhetorically oversaturated world. The world we’ve shaped now shapes us. For hours a day our thinking is […] ]]>