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Reason's dark champions : constructive strategies of Sophistic argument / Christopher W. Tindale.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in rhetoric/communicationPublication details: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 178 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611172331
  • 1611172330
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reason's dark champions.DDC classification:
  • 183/.1 22
LOC classification:
  • B288 .T56 2010eb
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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.
Summary: A complex and complete picture of the theory, practice, and reception of Sophistic argument.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and index.

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

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