@article{2016,title={THE PLACE AND FUNCTION OF EIKOS IN ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC},abstractNode={Aristotle, in his work entitled Rhetoric, defines rhetorics as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This definition is actually contains a criticism on the ways that Sophists are used for rhetorics. And he has based his criticism on a concept that has several meanings, but basically stands for likelihood, eikos. Eikos is the source of enthymeme which is the main issue of rhetoric but with its side there are two more concepts as sources, semeion and tekmerion. In this context, the article will try to analyze over those three concepts the way Aristotle defines rhetoric and enthymeme and uses of eikos in Aristotle.},author={Esra ÇAĞRI MUTLU},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}