Essential Logic

I think that rhetoric and logic can be connected in many ways. They are connected in the sense that they both represent techniques and ways for persuading speech - Rhetoric uses public speech to bring the listener in and make them believe in what is being said. Logic is quite similiar, as it also uses many techniques to validate, and make more sound "true" statements. Similarily philosophers believed that rhetoric was essetial to discovering truth and clarifying arguements. Logic can be viewed in this way as well - it is used to discover fallacies, clarify true statements and therefore be sound. However, I think the difference between the two is that Logic is more of a defensive tool to use to figure out persuasive agruments and help get to the truth. Whereas rhetoric is more the method and practice of "tricking" and being persuasive.