Communication and Knowledge: An Investigation in Rhetorical Epistemology

A. J. Ayer analysis argue arguers argument Aristotle audience Butchvarov Central States Speech certainty Chapter Cherwitz complex concept consciousness constitutes contemporary contend context criteria critical defined definition of rhetoric describe reality description of reality dialectic discussion distinction dualism Ehninger embody Enthymeme entities epistemic judgments evaluative example existence extralinguistic human I. A. Richards ideas implies individual inquiry intersubjectivity issues Jack Orr Journal of Speech justified true belief Keith Lehrer knowl knowledge claims linguistic logical McGilvary ment nature notion objects of reality ontological Panayot Butchvarov particular perspectival perspectives persuasion phenomena philosophical Plato position problem propositions Quarterly Journal question Quintilian rational reality through language reason referential rela relational theory relationalist relationality relationship relevant rhetorical discourse rhetorical epistemology rhetorical theory Richard scientific sense Spectacular Bid Speech Acts stand statement stimulus-response theories subjectivist term theories of meaning theorists tion torical traditional truth understanding University Press York