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Carter believes the best way for us to approach an understanding of kairos is through examination of this different, but perhaps related ancient concept of stasis. He explains that Kinneavy's theoretical approach "understands rhetorical kairos as situational context and uses that principle to emphasize the contextual nature of all discourse, even the discourse of the composition class . . . [however], stasis was the method by which rhetors in the classical tradition identified the area of disagreement, the point that was to be argued, the issue on which a case hinged." He continues, "The stasiastic procedure not only identifies the rhetorical issue, but also leads the rhetor to topoi appropriate to that issue" (Carter 98-99).
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