Silas: "Last night, my late Aunt Pearl appeared to me as a ghost. She was wearing the same red dress she had on at my birthday party." Morton: "I find that hard to believe. Even if a person's spirit can cross over to another plane of existence, how can their clothes go along? And why wasn't she wearing the outfit she was buried in?" Morton's response best illustrates which model or theory of argument?
A) Toulmin model
B) Dialectical model
C) Perelman's new rhetoric
D) Pragma-dialectics
E) Narrative perspective

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The Answer of Silas: "Last night, my late Aunt Pearl appeared to me as a ghost. She was wearing the same red dress she had on at my birthday party." Morton: "I find that hard to believe. Even if a person's spirit can cross over to another plane of existence, how can their clothes go along? And why wasn't she wearing the outfit she was buried in?" Morton's response best illustrates which model or theory of argument?
A) Toulmin model
B) Dialectical model
C) Perelman's new rhetoric
D) Pragma-dialectics
E) Narrative perspective

Silas: "Last Night, My Late Aunt Pearl Appeared to Me