Are Dialectic and Rhetoric the Same?

Dialectic is concerned with general questions, while rhetoric is concerned for the most part with particular topics (i.e., things about which we cannot gain real knowledge). ... Non-argumentative methods are absent from dialectic, while rhetoric uses non-argumentative means of persuasion

means of persuasion
The modes of persuasion or rhetorical appeals (Greek: pisteis) are strategies of rhetoric that classify the speaker's appeal to the audience. These include ethos, pathos, and logos.
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Why is dialectic the counterpart of rhetoric?

Dialectic is the art of logical argumentation. It has been a sister discipline to rhetoric since before Aristotle. Like rhetoric, dialectic is concerned with persuasion and logical proof and takes into account opposing viewpoints on a given issue (see in utrumque partes).

How does the view of argument as rhetoric differ from the dialectical perspective?

Rhetorical argumentation understood as the uses of arguments in speeches, that is, with noninteractive audiences, and dialectical argumentation understood as the uses of arguments in conversations, that is, with interacting respondents, will both thus exhibit and appeal to logical norms.

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