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Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero [electronic resource] / by Gábor Tahin.

By: Tahin, Gábor [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Argumentation Library: 23Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: XVI, 193 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319017990.Subject(s): Philosophy (General) | Philosophy, classical | Logic | Linguistics | Humanities | Philosophy | Logic | Classical Studies | Historical Linguistics | Classical PhilosophyDDC classification: 160 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Table of Contents -- Preface.- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Problem of Analysis -- Chapter 3 The Origins of Heuristic Argumentation: Probable Arguments in Ancient Rhetoric -- Chapter 4 Cicero’s Models: Heuristic Arguments in the Greek Orators -- Chapter 5 Pro Flacco -- Chapter 6  Pro Sulla.- Chapter 7 Pro Murena.- Chapter 8 Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino -- Chapter 9 Pro Milone -- Chapter 10 Pro Cluentio -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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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Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Table of Contents -- Preface.- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Problem of Analysis -- Chapter 3 The Origins of Heuristic Argumentation: Probable Arguments in Ancient Rhetoric -- Chapter 4 Cicero’s Models: Heuristic Arguments in the Greek Orators -- Chapter 5 Pro Flacco -- Chapter 6  Pro Sulla.- Chapter 7 Pro Murena.- Chapter 8 Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino -- Chapter 9 Pro Milone -- Chapter 10 Pro Cluentio -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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