Endoxa derives from the word doxa. Whereas Plato condemned doxa (beliefs and opinions) as a starting point for achieving Truth, Aristotle uses the term endoxa (commonly held beliefs accepted by the wise and by elder rhetors) to acknowledge the beliefs of the city. Endoxa is a more stable belief than doxa, because it has been "tested" in argumentative struggles in the Polis by prior interlocutors. The use of endoxa in the Stagirite's Organon can be found in Aristotle's Topics and Rhetoric. Statue of a philosopher, presumably Plato, in Delphi. ... Aristotle (sculpture) ARISTOTOLE (Greek: Αριστοτέλης AristotelÄ“s; 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. ... Topic can refer to: The topic or theme of a proposition in linguistics An XML topic (a kind of resource) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Rhetoric (from Greek ρητωρ, rhêtôr, orator) is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar) in Western culture. ...