Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensées |
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Page 58
... fact of perception , of " possessibility , " is not part of the essential nature of things but is merely con- tingent , metonymically to the side , as it were , of entities themselves . Conse- quently , the perception of an entity does ...
... fact of perception , of " possessibility , " is not part of the essential nature of things but is merely con- tingent , metonymically to the side , as it were , of entities themselves . Conse- quently , the perception of an entity does ...
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... fact the product of an act of the " will " or of " desire " -the command that I want such an entity to be . What is spoken silently in the recesses of the heart is in fact the prefixive " I want ... , " and the entire chain of ...
... fact the product of an act of the " will " or of " desire " -the command that I want such an entity to be . What is spoken silently in the recesses of the heart is in fact the prefixive " I want ... , " and the entire chain of ...
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... fact , then the knowledge gained by this insight is precisely what is excluded as illusion . The final illusion to be dispelled is to think that we can know what it means in terms of referential meaning and truth for language to be a ...
... fact , then the knowledge gained by this insight is precisely what is excluded as illusion . The final illusion to be dispelled is to think that we can know what it means in terms of referential meaning and truth for language to be a ...
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 |
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