Reason's dark champions : constructive strategies of Sophistic argument /

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A complex and complete picture of the theory, practice, and reception of Sophistic argument.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tindale, Christopher W. (Christopher William)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2010.
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects:
Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Reasoning.
Sophistes grecs.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
Reasoning
Argumentation
Sophistik
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sophistic argument : contrasting views
  • Making the weak argument the stronger
  • Plato's Sophists
  • The Sophists and fallacious argument : Aristotle's legacy
  • What is Eikos? : the argument from likelihood
  • Turning tables : roots and varieties of the Peritrope
  • Contrasting arguments : Antilogoi or Antithesis
  • Signs, commonplaces, and allusions
  • Ethotic argument : witness testimony and the appeal to character
  • Justice and the value of Sophistic argument.

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