Dilemmatic Arguments: Towards a History of Their Logic and Rhetoric (Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde) - Softcover

Nuchelmans, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0444857303 ISBN 13: 9780444857309

Publisher: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences,The Netherlands, 1991

Synopsis

The intention of this book is to set forth the history (up to the end of the 17th Century) of logical and rhetorical reflections on dilemmatic arguments, i.e. arguments in which from each member of an exhaustive disjunction of premisses an identical conclusion is drawn. Certain types of such arguments were widely discussed among ancient teachers of rhetoric and, to a lesser extent, by ancient logicians. After a period of relative neglect in the Middle Ages, there was a remarkable revival during the Renaissance. In the 17th Century, several attempts were made to find the proper logical form of dilemmatic reasonings. In the course of tracing these developments, special attention is paid to the "consequentia mirabilis" , a kind of argument in which a conclusion is inferred from a premiss that is its direct contradictory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences,The Netherlands
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444857303
• ISBN 13: 9780444857309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152