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100 1 $aTindale, Christopher W.$q(Christopher William)
245 10 $aReason's dark champions :$bconstructive strategies of Sophistic argument /$cChristopher W. Tindale.
260 $aColumbia, S.C. :$bUniversity of South Carolina Press,$cc2010.
300 $axiv, 178 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in rhetoric/communication
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSophistic argument and the early tradition -- Introduction -- The category Sophist : who counts? -- The figure of Socrates -- Sophistic argument : contrasting views -- Against the Sophists -- Figures of influence -- Positive views of Sophistic argument -- Resistance to revision -- Making the weak argument the stronger -- A problem of translation -- Eristics and the Euthydemus -- Antiphon the Sophist -- Protagorean rhetoric -- Plato's Sophists -- Platonic and Sophistic argument and the 'Sophist dialogues' -- Public and private argument -- Plato's view of argument -- A question of method -- Imitation and method : eristic and the Peritrope -- The veracity of Plato's testimony -- The Sophists and fallacious argument: Aristotle's legacy -- The Sophists and fallacy -- The Sophistical refutations -- Fallacy in the Euthydemus -- Lessons from the Euthydemus -- Contrasting refutations -- Sophistic strategies of argumentation -- Introduction -- Rhetoric and argumentation --
505 0 $aRhetoric and sophistry -- Extending Sophistic argument : Alcidamas and Isocrates -- What is Eikos? : the argument from likelihood -- The meaning of likelihood -- Examples from Antiphon -- The range of Eikos arguments -- Evaluating Eikos arguments -- Contemporary appearances : Walton and the plausibility argument -- Turning tables : roots and varieties of the Peritrope -- What trope is the Peritrope? -- Defining the Peritrope -- Reversal arguments in Gorgias and Antiphon -- Socratic and Sophistic refutations again -- Contemporary reversals -- Evaluation -- Contrasting arguments : Antilogoi or Antithesis -- The concepts of Antilogoi and Antithesis -- History of the Antilogoi -- The dissoi logoi -- Antithesis and the counterfactual -- Examples of Antilogoi : Gorgias, Antiphon, Prodicus, Thucydides, Antisthenes -- Purpose and evaluation -- Contemporary echoes -- Signs, commonplaces, and allusions -- Modes of proof -- Arguing from signs -- Commonplaces -- Allusions -- More recent echoes --
505 0 $aEthotic argument : witness testimony and the appeal to character -- Ethos -- The appeal to one's own character -- Witnesses -- Funeral speeches -- Promotion of character -- Attacking character -- The use of ethotic argument and the modern ad hominem -- Justice and the value of Sophistic argument -- Truth and morality : reasoning in the dark -- A human justice -- Sophistic argument and justice -- Two kinds of Sophist -- Sophistic argument in the present.
650 0 $aSophists (Greek philosophy)
650 0 $aReasoning.
830 0 $aStudies in rhetoric/communication.
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