Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero

• Main Author: Tahin, Gábor (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Argumentation Library, 23
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philology.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Logic.; Historical linguistics.; Classical Studies.; Historical Linguistics.; Classical Philosophy.

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 r...