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Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Gabor Tahin

Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

Gabor Tahin

Series: Argumentation Library, 23

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This book introduces a new form of argumentative analysis: rhetorical heuremes. The method applies the concepts of heuristic thinking, probability, and contingency in order to develop a better understanding of complex arguments in classical oratory. A new theory is required because Greek and Roman rhetoric cannot provide detailed answers to problems of strategic argumentation in the analysis of speeches. Building on scholarship in Ciceronian oratory, this book moves beyond the extant terminology and employs a concept of heuristic reasoning derived from the psychology of decision making and mathematical problem solving. The author analyses selected passages from Cicero's forensic speeches where arguments of probability are deployed, and shows that the Sophistic concept of probability can link ancient rhetoric and modern theories of argumentation. Six groups of heuremes are identified, each of which represents a form of probabilistic reasoning by which the orator plays upon the perception of the jurors.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Argumentation Library, 23
Release date: December 2013
First published: 2014
Authors: Gabor Tahin
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 193
Edition: 2014 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-01798-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
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LSN: 3-319-01798-5
Barcode: 9783319017983

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