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Can We Programme Utopia? The Influence of the Digital Neoliberal Discourse on Utopian Videogames [PDF]
, 2018 This article has a dual purpose. The first is to establish the relationship between videogames and utopia in the neoliberal era and clarify the origins of this compromise in the theoretical dimension of game studies.
Navarrete-Cardero, Luis +1 more
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Common Sense and the Rhetoric of Technology [PDF]
, 2014 This article investigates rhetorical methods for establishing notions of common sense, especially the common sense that makes technological choices take on an aura of inevitability.
Welsh, Joshua
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Rhetoric and persuasion: understanding enthymemes in the public sphere
Acta Academica, 2010 The enthymeme has been used and analysed for over two millennia. It is one of the most powerful rhetorical instruments used for the purpose of persuasion, be it through the spoken or written word.
Murray Faure
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Entymemat jako struktura epigramatyczna. Koncepcja Jakuba Masena
Colloquia Theologica Ottoniana, 2015 Baroque epigrams are sometimes criticised and considered as not interesting and sophisticated enough. It appears that today’s readers and interpreters may be wrong not only in their judgements but also in their understanding of the achievements of ...
Jarosław Nowaszczuk
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Mind the gap? The persistence of pathological discourses in urban regeneration policy [PDF]
, 2010 Urban regeneration policy has historically framed policy problems using a discourse that pathologises areas and spatial communities. Since 2001 in England, and 2002 in Scotland a structural change in policy has occurred where citywide partnerships are ...
Atkinson R. +28 more
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Charity and the Reiteration Problem for Enthymemes
Informal Logic, 1996 Any enthymeme can be made logically valid by adding as a suppressed premise a conditional that reiterates the argument's stated content and inferential structure in if-then form, We cannot blanketly prohibit reiteration to avoid this sort of ...
Dale Jacquette
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2019 One controversy in the study of the Chinese shenme ‘what’-based rhetorical question (shenme-RQ for short) is how it takes on a negative interpretation. This paper attempts to apply enthymeme or rhetorical syllogism to the deduction of negative meaning of
Dong Chengru, Jin Dawei
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Informal Logic, 1999 In Evaluating Critical Thinking Stephen Norris and Robert Ennis say: "Although it is tempting to think that certain [unstated] assumptions are logically necessary for an argument or position, they are not.
Gilbert Plumer
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The Peculiarities of Expressing Propozemes in Polyssilogisms
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2016 The article analyzes the features of complex propozemes functioning in polysillogisms that required an appeal to the deep connection of logic and language and allowed to give complete description of the research object. It is noted that among the various
Elena A. Petrova
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On the Body of Literary Persuasion
Estetika, 2010 In this paper, the author argues that literary works have distinct cognitive significance in changing their readers’ beliefs. In particular, he discusses ‘philosophical fictions’ and truth-claims that they may imply. Basing himself broadly on Aristotle’s
Jukka Mikkonen
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