From Logic to Rhetoric

Translated from the French original edition, Paris, 1982

Michel Meyer

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What is language, and how has it been conceived since Frege? How did the development of thought about language lead to a renewed interest in rhetoric in the twentieth century and ultimately to the ‘problematological synthesis’? These are the main questions treated in this book. A constant intertwining of historical and topical viewpoints characterizes the author’s approach.

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:3] 1986. ix, 147 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/pb.vii.3

Table of Contents

Introduction | p. 1

Part One: Logic and Language

1. Frege or the Recourse to Formalization | p. 3

1.1. Logic before Frege
1.2. Function and concept
1.3. The ideography and the principles of Fregean language theory
1.4. Sense and reference
1.5. Sense and meaning
1.6. Conclusion

2. Russell's Synthesis | p. 17

2.1. Formalization and natural language
2.2. Definite descriptions
2.3. Propositional functions
2.4. The theory of types
2.5. Conclusion

3. Wittgenstein: From Truth Tables to Ordinary Language and the Implications of Generalized Analyticity | p. 35

3.1. The Russellian heritage and its contradictions
3.2. The immanence of logic in language
3.3. Sense and reference
3.4. The language image (the picture theory of language)
3.5. Negation and the other logical constants
3.6. The Tractatus as initiation into silence
3.7. Ordinary language and its rules
3.8. Conclusion: Russell vs. Wittgenstein, a heritage

4. Hintikka or the Theory of Possible Worlds | p. 65

4.1. Introduction
4.2. Referential opacity
4.3. Ontological commitment and the elimination of single terms with Quine
4.4. Possible worlds and propositional attitudes
4.5. The implications of the alternativeness relation and the theory of modus
4.6. The ontological commitment
4.7. The interpretation of quantification as a question and answer game
4.8. Wittgenstein and Hintikka: A concluding comparison
Part Two: Language and Context

5. Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Argumentation | p. 85

5.1. The three levels of language
5.2. Logical syntax
5.3. Formalization and natural language
5.4. The renewal of argumentation
5.5. Perelman's new rhetoric
5.6. Argumentation in language or the ‘new linguistics’ of Anscombre and Ducrot
5.7. Conclusion

6. Dialectic and Questioning | p. 99

6.1. Dialectic and Socrates
6.2. The middle dialogues: Dialectic and the hypothetical method
6.3. The late period: The question of being or the shift from the question to being

7. Argumentation in the Light of a Theory of Questioning | p. 115

7.1. Why language?
7.2. The two major categories of forms
7.3. What is to be understood by ‘question’ and ‘problem’?
7.4. The autonomization of the spoken and the written
7.5. The proposition as proposition of an answer
7.6. What is meaning?
7.7. Meaning as the locus of dialectic
7.8. Argumentation
7.9. Literal and figurative meaning: The origin of messages ‘between the lines’

Footnotes | p. 137

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