Rhetorical structure: Truth and method in weaver's epistemology
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 64 (3) , 233-245
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335637809383430
Abstract
The rhetorical problem of concretizing the ideal is explored via the relationship between form and fact in Richard Weaver's theory of truth. The investigation reveals that reliance on analogic form permits Weaver's arguments to function externally as if empirically grounded and internally in the analytic fashion of logico‐mathematical reasoning. Explication of Weaver's rhetorical method suggests that analogic structure, example, and analogy are fundamental ways of rhetorical knowing.Keywords
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