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The suasive role of aesthetics in science suggests that a cogent argument is possible, not requiring belief in God, but only belief in the beauty of truth.
Apparently, the Coalition does not trust the suasive power of the Bible to win over the hearts and minds of America on the issues it really considers important.
In the "dramatistic" view of language, he writes, statements can be viewed as forms of `symbolic action,' and terminologies, even if they are the "most unemotional scientific nomenclatures," are suasive in that they encourage an audience to adopt a particular view of reality (usually in place of another) (45).
 
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