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Philsophy and Rhetoric
Volume 37(1), 2004

 
CONTENTS
 
Haskins, Ekaterina V. Endoxa, epistemological optimism, and Aristotle's rhetorical project. 1-20
 
  Aristotle's crucial role in institutionalizing the art of rhetoric in the fourth century BCE is beyond dispute, but the significance of Aristotle's rhetorical project remains a point of lively controversy among philosophers and rhetoricians alike 
 
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classical rhetoric
text and writing
critical theory
history
theory
 
 
Crick, Nathan Conquering our imagination: Thought experiments and enthymemes in scientific argument. 21-41
 
  The dividing line between rhetoric and science has traditionally been drawn at the split between persuasion and logic 
 
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rhetoric
science
critical theory
theory
text and writing
 
 
Stroud, Scott R. Narrative as argument in Indian philosophy: The Astavakra Gita as multivalent narrative. 42-71
 
  Indian philosophy has often been described as radically different in nature than Western philosphy due to its frequent use of narrative structure 
 
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narrative
text and writing
Indian subcontinent
rhetoric
 
 
Yarbrough, Stephen R. Passing theories through topical heuristics: Donald Davidson, Aristotle, and the conditions of discursive competence. 72-91
 
  What are the conditions of discursive competence? In "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" Donald Davidson explains how it is possible that in practice we can, with little effort, understand and appropriately respond to linguistic anomalies such as the malapropism -- anomalies because, by definition, the "language" cannot account for how we understand them 
 
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semiotic theory
cognition
text and writing
competence