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Pathos vs Logos - What's the difference?

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Logos is a coordinate term of pathos.



In rhetoric terms the difference between pathos and logos

is that pathos is a writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity while logos is a form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument.

As nouns the difference between pathos and logos

is that pathos is the quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality while logos is a form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument.

As a proper noun Logos is

in Ancient Greek philosophy, the rational principle that governs the cosmos.

pathos

English

Noun

  • The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
  • * 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd, 1874:
  • His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.
  • (rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
  • (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
  • (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
  • Anagrams

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    logos

    English

    (wikipedia logos)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (form of rhetoric) ethos, pathos

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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