The Aesthetics of Argument

by Martin Warner

Argument and imagination are often interdependent. The Aesthetics of Argument is concerned with how this relationship may bear on argument's concern with truth, not just persuasion, and with the enhancement of understanding such interdependence may bring. The rationality of argument, conceived as the advancement of reasons for or against a claim, is not simply a matter of deductive validity. Whether arguments are relevant, have force, or look foolish--or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198737114
• ISBN13: 9780198737117
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"