There was one major contribution that Aristotle gave to rhetoric that stood out to me in this reading: dialectic. Dialectic is defined as “a method of reasoning from common opinions, directed by established principles of reasoning to probable conclusions. A logical method of debating issues of general interests, stating from widely accepted propositions” (Herrick 85). If you put this into layman’s terms, it is the process of preparing your argument for counter-arguments. What I mean by this is that as you prepare to debate, you look at both sides of the argument, accepting the counter-points as valid and thus preparing to defend yourself from those questions. This not only furthered the advancement in teaching rhetoric, but also helped those rhetors at the time prepare better and stronger arguments. This also showed flaws in the methods of the sophists, taking away some of their accreditation.