Chapter 5 was a lot about common place.
The piece I was interested in most about this chapter was that common places can change depending on the current situation.
It's important to know that depending on laws and current situations common places can change. For example, thoughts on communism have changed over time. When people were afraid of communism, there were different arguments that changed.
There are different questions to consider: What is possible? What is impossible? What is less possible? What is possible in the future? What is impossible in the future? and What is impossible and possible in the past? (pg 151)
These questions can be applied to any topic to determine a common place.
These questions are important when shaping an argument so that a person covers all of their basis and is educated about the topic enough to make an argument about it.
Differnt rhetors had their own ideas about common place, but I think they are pretty similar at their core.
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