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Rhetoric, reasonableness and ethics: An essay on Perelman

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The article deals with an interpretation of the work of Ch. Perelman. The author tries to determine the meaning of reasonableness in a hermeneutical and anthropological perspective. He then places the work of Perelman in the light of the theory of symbolic interactionism of G.H. Mead.

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Wintgens, L.J. Rhetoric, reasonableness and ethics: An essay on Perelman. Argumentation 7, 451–460 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00711061

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