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The Darwinian Rhetoric of Science in Petr Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. A Factor of Evolution (1902)
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 141-159, March 2020., 2020 Abstract The paper explores the significance of rhetorical argumentation in Petr Kropotkin's treatise Mutual Aid. A Factor of Evolution (1902). It argues that Kropotkin's work is steeped in the tradition of a rhetoric of science that is profoundly Darwinian and in which various forms of analogic reasoning play a central role.
Riccardo Nicolosi
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Methodology Matters; Even More
European Management Review, Volume 17, Issue 1, Page 279-284, Spring 2020., 2020 This editorial essay reflects on the importance of a section like Methodology Matters and its first two years. It also introduces the six articles in this issue of the European Management Review (EMR) that follow this essay and have progressed successfully through the review process for publication and it suggests ways in which the debates that each of
Bill Lee
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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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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 Enthymeme from Signs and the Study of Nature in the Renaissance
, 2023 In the Aristotelian tradition the enthymeme is considered the main argument of rhetorical discourse. The essay shows (1) how along its history the enthymeme has been employed also in other contexts beyond rhetoric, and (2) how it contributed in a major ...
Marco Sgarbi
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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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The Theories of the Enthymeme Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (325-880 Ca.)
, 2023 The theory of the enthymeme is already ambiguous in classical Greek and Latin texts. This logical-rhetorical component is described as a sort of ‘imperfect syllogism’; as the demonstration of a contradiction (and therefore as argumentation a contrario or
Renato de Filippis
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