Abstract
Drawing on John Dewey's classic definition of criticism, this essay centers on judgment as a necessary culmination for criticism of rhetoric. Concentrating primarily on the use of touchstones and analogs in aesthetic appraisals of rhetoric, the essay reconsiders and reshapes insights from scholarship on criticism by Edwin Black and Michael Leff to argue that touchstones and analogs can reveal rhetorical possibilities from a range of situated standpoints. A rhetorical shift to the judgment of touchstones can move us from the artifact to the public disclosure of a critic's narratives and reasons concerning the possible in rhetoric, regardless of whether the artifact is considered an exceptional masterpiece.
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