Rhetoric, Dialectic and Logic: The Wild-Goose Chase for an Essential Distinction

Informal Logic

Charlotte Jørgensen¹ 

[1] Department of Media, Cognition, and CommunicationRhetoric SectionUniversity of Copenhagen;

关键词: Argumentation theory, Christian Kock, dialectic, fields of argument, J. Anthony Blair, logic, perspectives on argument, rhetoric;   

DOI  :  10.22329/il.v34i2.4062

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Taking Blair’s recent contribution to the debate about the triad as its starting point, the article discusses and challenges attempts to reduce the intricate relationship between rhetoric, dialectic and logic to a trichotomy with watertight compartments or to separate them with a single clear-cut criterion. I argue that efforts to pinpoint an essential difference, among the various typical differences partly grounded in disciplinary traditions, obscure the complexities within the fields. As a consequence, crosscutting properties of the fields as well as the possibilities for theoretical bridging between them are neglected.

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