Cogency vs Emphasis - What's the difference?
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The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.
* 1781 , , "Addison," in Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols (London), vol. 5, page 156:
* 1928 , , "Thomas Aquinas' Doctrine of Knowledge and Its Historical Setting," Speculum , vol. 3, no. 4 (Oct), page 444:
Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
Special attention or prominence given to something.
Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
(typography) Related to bold.
Cogency is a related term of emphasis.
As nouns the difference between cogency and emphasis
is that cogency is the state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive while emphasis is special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.cogency
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Noun
(cogencies)- All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest.
- A philosophic study of the development of philosophies should be content to seek out the bases and cogencies of philosophies rather than engage upon a nostalgic search for sympathetic doctrines.
References
* * * * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)emphasis
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(wikipedia emphasis)Noun
(emphases)- He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
- Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
- He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.