Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensées |
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... becomes a mere aesthetic adjunct , an ornament within the semantic . Eloquence is now a mere aesthetic supplement in the service of what has become known , after Pierre Kuentz , as the bivium of the seventeenth century , that is , the ...
... becomes a mere aesthetic adjunct , an ornament within the semantic . Eloquence is now a mere aesthetic supplement in the service of what has become known , after Pierre Kuentz , as the bivium of the seventeenth century , that is , the ...
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... becomes clear that there is no perceptible manifestation of a body , or anything else , there . With the properties removed from the entity in question , it becomes clear that nothing becomes visible or is made manifest in the tube ...
... becomes clear that there is no perceptible manifestation of a body , or anything else , there . With the properties removed from the entity in question , it becomes clear that nothing becomes visible or is made manifest in the tube ...
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... becomes the source of ornamental and manneristic devices of persuasion , and these , in order to avoid abuse , must be used in the service of dialectic , which becomes the art of discur- sive reasoning , of argumentation , and finally ...
... becomes the source of ornamental and manneristic devices of persuasion , and these , in order to avoid abuse , must be used in the service of dialectic , which becomes the art of discur- sive reasoning , of argumentation , and finally ...
Contents
Logic and Rhetoric | 1 |
Natures Visibility | 37 |
Persuasion | 72 |
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Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific ... Erec R. Koch Limited preview - 1997 |
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Fire in the Dark: Essays on Pascal's Pensées and Provinciales Charles M. Natoli No preview available - 2005 |
La littérature, le XVIIe siècle et nous: dialogue transatlantique Hélène Merlin-Kajman Limited preview - 2008 |