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Logic and Rhetoric

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In the last fifty years we have seen an enlargement of the scope of logic from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. But the question remains: How do we go from logic to rhetoric? In other words, is there a relationship between the study of formal systems and that of style and figures of speech?

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  • Ch. Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation, University of Notre-Dame Press, 1969 (French edition 1958 ).

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  • Of. Ch. Perelman, ‘Philosophy, Rhetoric, Commonplaces’, in The New Rhetoric and the Humanities, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland, 1979, pp. 52–61.

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Perelman, C. (1981). Logic and Rhetoric. In: Agazzi, E. (eds) Modern Logic — A Survey. Synthese Library, vol 149. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9056-2_25

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