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Rhetoric & Omission
Entry #0597
The reason an example is not evidence but persuades as one
One case says nothing about how often. It arrives with detail, sequence and a face, and those are the properties that get treated as weight.
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#0597
A case carries no frequency information and all the memorability. Choosing the example for how well it illustrates the point is where the argument moves.