Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensées |
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... ornaments and their charms risks distorting drawing : the excessive use of ornament , " la partie la plus basse et la plus matérielle " of discourse , makes agreeable and desirable that which does not merit such value . It is necessary ...
... ornaments and their charms risks distorting drawing : the excessive use of ornament , " la partie la plus basse et la plus matérielle " of discourse , makes agreeable and desirable that which does not merit such value . It is necessary ...
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... ornaments in the persuasive dis- course of truth . The analyses of rhetorical ornaments presented above are all primarily di- rected to defining figures as aesthetic supplements . It is indeed the aesthetic function of rhetoric , as the ...
... ornaments in the persuasive dis- course of truth . The analyses of rhetorical ornaments presented above are all primarily di- rected to defining figures as aesthetic supplements . It is indeed the aesthetic function of rhetoric , as the ...
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... ornaments , but examines what metaphor does in the construction and defi- nition of the model as the paradigm and ground for figural ornaments . Here the fragment charts the interference of the trope in the conceptual definition of the ...
... ornaments , but examines what metaphor does in the construction and defi- nition of the model as the paradigm and ground for figural ornaments . Here the fragment charts the interference of the trope in the conceptual definition of the ...
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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according aesthetic analogical analysis Arnauld Augustine autre Bible bien Blaise Pascal body c'est casuist casuistry catachresis charity chiasmus choses citation cited claim cognitive constitutes corps critique Descartes dialectic Dieu discourse discursive reasoning doctrine doxic effect entity Entretien enunciation Epictetus epistemological epistemologically sound error être example fait figure force fragment function Grammaire de Port-Royal hermeneutic hommes Jean Mesnard Jesuits justice knowledge l'esprit letter Lettres provinciales linguistic act logic logicians Logique de Port-Royal Louis Marin ment merely Mesnard metaphor metonymic mimetic Montaigne moral movement n'est nature negative Nicole Noël Noël's nominal definition Old Testament ornaments Paris passage passions Pensées perception persuasion peut positing predicament present proper properties propositions Provinciales Pyrrhonism qu'elle qu'il qu'on question referential meaning Réflexions representation rhetorical doxa Rhétorique sciences of language sens sense sensuous spirit status style substitution symbol symmetrical thing thought tion tout traditional rhetoric translation trivium tropes true truth vérité void
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