Question 3

In the terms of contention section of the reading Appiah poses questions to introduce and explain his ideas. His questions are rhetorical, open ended questions with many possible responses and no absolute answer. Answers to Appiahs questions are merely just the opinions of the answerer. The purpose of these questions are to make the reader truely think about his ideas and not just think about his ideas from one side because to understand Appiahs ideas you have to think about the questions from many different sides. It also causes one to question their own previous opinion on a topic. In a narrative of some sort or a persuasive essay of some sort I feel that I could successfully utilize Appiahs rhetorical question strategy. At the same time I feel that if one was to misuse his strategy it could have a greater negative affect on ones paper.