Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Rhetoric" in English language version.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)[Mirror self-recognition] has long been used to test self-awareness in human children: researchers place a mark on the child's face, and if the child spontaneously uses the mirror to touch this otherwise imperceptible mark, she is considered self-aware. But these nonhuman creatures passed the test, too—as if such scientific evidence were necessary to confirm that certain animals represent themselves to themselves and others. . . . Any creature capable of even minimal self-reference is already in language, already responding; that is to say, it is both defined by its irreducible rhetoricity and, more importantly for our purposes, already practicing rhetoric .
Cum ergo sit in medio posita facultas eloquii, quae ad persuadenda seu prava seu recta valet plurimum, cur non bonorum studio comparatur, ut militet veritati, si eam mali ad obtinendas perversas vanasque causas in usus iniquitatis et erroris usurpant?
[Mirror self-recognition] has long been used to test self-awareness in human children: researchers place a mark on the child's face, and if the child spontaneously uses the mirror to touch this otherwise imperceptible mark, she is considered self-aware. But these nonhuman creatures passed the test, too—as if such scientific evidence were necessary to confirm that certain animals represent themselves to themselves and others. . . . Any creature capable of even minimal self-reference is already in language, already responding; that is to say, it is both defined by its irreducible rhetoricity and, more importantly for our purposes, already practicing rhetoric .
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)