Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensées |
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... style , manner , and expression . Within language as a cognitive system governed by logic and grammar , the place of rhetoric is preordained as a supplementary aes- thetic phenomenon . Indeed , Marc Fumaroli's exhaustive documentation ...
... style , manner , and expression . Within language as a cognitive system governed by logic and grammar , the place of rhetoric is preordained as a supplementary aes- thetic phenomenon . Indeed , Marc Fumaroli's exhaustive documentation ...
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... style and serve as a source of sensuous beauty in discourse ( Grammaire de Port - Royal , 160-62 ) . The Logique de Port - Royal examines more extensively the true properties of figures and tropes by assessing precisely what these ...
... style and serve as a source of sensuous beauty in discourse ( Grammaire de Port - Royal , 160-62 ) . The Logique de Port - Royal examines more extensively the true properties of figures and tropes by assessing precisely what these ...
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... style " and con- tent , the supplementary rhetorical " outside " of language and primary meaning . Charity , which is impressed upon the will , is always the rhetorical manner of the divine logos , of divine persuasion as distinct from ...
... style " and con- tent , the supplementary rhetorical " outside " of language and primary meaning . Charity , which is impressed upon the will , is always the rhetorical manner of the divine logos , of divine persuasion as distinct from ...
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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