Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensées |
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... definition , whose precise divergence , according to Pascal , constitutes the real purpose " pour lequel je fais ce traité " ( OCL 351a / OCM 399 ) . Nominal definition is defined as follows : Or again : On ne reconnaît en géométrie que ...
... definition , whose precise divergence , according to Pascal , constitutes the real purpose " pour lequel je fais ce traité " ( OCL 351a / OCM 399 ) . Nominal definition is defined as follows : Or again : On ne reconnaît en géométrie que ...
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... definition must themselves be defined , and so on . After presenting the method founded on nominal definition , Pascal admits in the Réflexions that it is merely an ideal , for not even geometry can achieve such rigor , since it would ...
... definition must themselves be defined , and so on . After presenting the method founded on nominal definition , Pascal admits in the Réflexions that it is merely an ideal , for not even geometry can achieve such rigor , since it would ...
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... defined by the transport described , and such transport is , of course , itself a metaphor , a metaphor for metaphor . As Paul de Man has argued in a largely neglected essay on Pascal's Réflexions , this transport is the same definition ...
... defined by the transport described , and such transport is , of course , itself a metaphor , a metaphor for metaphor . As Paul de Man has argued in a largely neglected essay on Pascal's Réflexions , this transport is the same definition ...
Contents
Logic and Rhetoric | 1 |
Natures Visibility | 37 |
Persuasion | 72 |
Copyright | |
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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 |