Dilemmatic Arguments: Towards a History of Their Logic and Rhetoric, Volume 145Paperback. The intention of this book is to set forth the history (up to the end ofthe 17th Century) of logical and rhetorical reflections on dilemmaticarguments, i.e. arguments in which from each member of an exhaustivedisjunction of premisses an identical conclusion is drawn. Certain types ofsuch arguments were widely discussed among ancient teachers of rhetoricand, to a lesser extent, by ancient logicians. After a period of relativeneglect in the Middle Ages, there was a remarkable revival during theRenaissance. In the 17th Century, several attempts were made to find theproper logical form of dilemmatic reasonings. In the course of tracingthese developments, special attention is paid to the consequentiamirabilis, a kind of argument in which a conclusion is inferredfrom a premiss that is its direct contradictory. |
Contents
Subconditional arguments | 11 |
Dilemmatic refutations of sceptical views | 18 |
The dilemmatic schema in Greek rhetoric | 27 |
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References to this book
Argument and Theology in 1 Peter: The Origins of Christian Paraenesis Lauri Thurén Limited preview - 1995 |