
Rhetorical Figures in Science
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- Intro
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1 The Figures as Epitomes
- The Dominance of Metaphor
- The Classical Tradition of the Figures
- Theories of Figuration
- The Figures as Epitomes of Lines of Reasoning
- Boundary Problems
- Verbal Spread and Visual Concision
- The Figures in Scientific Discourse
- CHAPTER 2 Antithesis
- The Aristotelian Definition of Antithesis
- The History of the Figure
- The Uses of Antithesis in Argument
- Arguing from Existing Semantic Contrasts
- The "False Window": Using the Form to Force Terms Apart
- Arguments that Change the Nature of Opposition
- CHAPTER 3 Incrementum and Gradatio
- Undoing Antitheses
- Figures that Construct Series
- The Uses of Incrementum and Gradatio in Argument
- Creating Places with Series
- Incomplete Series
- Double Hierarchy Arguments
- The Gradatio as Sorites
- Merging Categories
- Series Reasoning in Darwin's The Origin of Species
- CHAPTER 4 Antimetabole
- The Semantics and Syntax of the Antimetabole
- History of the Figure
- Argumentative Uses of the Antimetabole
- The Antimetabole and Causality
- Refutation by Reversal
- CHAPTER 5 Ploche and Polyptoton
- Figures of Repetition
- Perfect Repetition: Ploche
- Polyptoton
- The Argumentative Resources of Polyptoton
- Ploche, Polyptoton, and the Science of Electricity in the Eighteenth Century
- Notes
- References
- Index
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