Arrangement and its importance with kairos. We have talked about kairos before, and its importance in the timing of when to introduce an argument, or the best way/time to reveal it. But this is also true with arrangement. Arrangement needs kairos in order to determine which parts of an argument to arrange in the right way - the right timing.
Salons, invented in a way by Madeleine de Scudery, are a way of using kairos in the real world, when meeting people in a certain time and at a salon, gave people the means of expressing themselves and 'selling' themselves to others in that kairos.
Strong rhetoric relies on the very important concept of arrangement, for even a strong argument may be arranged in a weak way and lose value to an audience. Paying attention to kairos in arrangement allows for an argument to present itself in the most powerful and impactful way possible.
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