Analogy and intersubjectivity: Political oratory, scholarly argument and scientific reports

Metaphor and Politics

“…When emotions are evoked, logic is circumvented. Gross (1983) picked up on this theme and drew a contrast between scientific metaphors and political ones. He contended that scientific metaphors are intended to be analytic and ultimately to imply formulas to calculate specific relations and predictions.…”

Gross' Perelmanian Sense of Rhetoric

“…Gross has treated Perelman and I draw upon his articles on , particular and universal audiences My reading of scholarship synthesizes his thought and shows how he Several features persist in Gross's Perelmanian rhetorical audience is a primary concern for rhetorical ntersubjectivity article Gross notes pervasive relativism in which a substratum of reality, but on (Gross, 1983, claims about the centrality of audience. This review surveys a Perelmanian sense of rhetorical audience as two decades later at this point in our intellectual history it would be futile to 1999, in the function of values in various discourses and how values relate to or establish access to out that philosophy and science are no longer activities considered separate from being t wholly objectively oriented activities.…”

“…While this special issue is built on Gross's claims that science is rhetorical, this review traces this perspective to Perelmanian roots. (Gross, 1983), particular and universal audiences , and disassociation (Gross, 2000). 1 My reading of scholarship synthesizes his thought and shows how he Perelmanian framework.…”