This chapter covered the importance of evidence and its relation with rhetoric. An argument with no evidence is irrelevant and has no credibility, making it an unsupported opinion. The 5 types of evidence brought up by the author were simplified into the acronym VASES, which stands for visuals, analogies, statistics, experts, and stories. Like most things, each of these are strong in some area, yet weak in others. For example, statistics are solid proof because the evidence was found by mathematics, but not everyone is good with numbers and can comprehend the given information. This is why it is important to use more than one of these forms of evidence.
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