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Page 137
... statement of fact , then the knowledge gained by this insight is precisely what is excluded as illusion . The final ... statement of truth , of meaning , where there is only rhetorical force . As rhetorical doxa , language says nothing ...
... statement of fact , then the knowledge gained by this insight is precisely what is excluded as illusion . The final ... statement of truth , of meaning , where there is only rhetorical force . As rhetorical doxa , language says nothing ...
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... statement . In the two con- sequential statements in question , there is , in truth , only the illusion of reference to the outside world , there is , in truth , only the act of positing that attempts to impose itself . In the ...
... statement . In the two con- sequential statements in question , there is , in truth , only the illusion of reference to the outside world , there is , in truth , only the act of positing that attempts to impose itself . In the ...
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... statement is positive or negative , whether as the presence of meaning or , symmetrically , its absence.42 Any such attempt results merely in the substitution of an illusory effect , the statement , for that with which it is radically ...
... statement is positive or negative , whether as the presence of meaning or , symmetrically , its absence.42 Any such attempt results merely in the substitution of an illusory effect , the statement , for that with which it is radically ...
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 |