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The New Rhetoric

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I began working on what I now call the new rhetoric with only a vague idea of what it was about, with no intention to become a rhetorician.1 As a logician, I was interested in the study of reasoning, especially reasoning about values. I wanted to develop a logic of value judgments.

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  1. See for more details: ‘The new rhetoric, a theory of practical reasoning’ in The Great Ideas Today, 1970, Encyclopaedia Briiannica. 1970, pp. 273–312.

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  2. See Perelman, Ch. and Olbrochts-Tyteca, L.: 1969, The New Rhetoric-A Treatise on Argumentation, Notre Dame University Press, p. 113.

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  3. See Perelman, Ch.: The new rhetoric, a theory of practical reasoning, p. 291.

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  4. Sec Giuliani. A.: 1966, La controversla, contributo alia logica giuridica, Pavia.

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  5. See Pcrclman, Ch.: 196S, ‘Le raisonnement pratique’ in R. Klibansky (ed.), Contemporary Philosophy, Florence, La Nuova Italia, Vol. 1, pp. 168–76.

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Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

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Perelman, C. (1971). The New Rhetoric. In: Bar-Hillel, Y. (eds) Pragmatics of Natural Languages. Synthese Library, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1713-8_8

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