Logic and rhetoric in England, 1500-1700 /
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New York :
Russell & Russell,
[1961, ©1956]
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Introduction
- ch. 2. Scholastic logic: Thomas Wilson's Rule of reason ; Backgrounds of scholasticism ; Witcraft
- ch. 3. Traditional rhetoric: the three patterns: Origin and boundaries ; The five great arts ; The rhetoric of style ; Models for imitation
- ch. 4. The English Ramists: Ramus's reform of dialectic and rhetoric ; Ramus's dialectic in England ; Ramus's rhetoric in England
- ch. 5. Counterreform: systematics and neo-Ciceronians: Middle ground between contradictions ; The reappearance of the three patterns
- ch. 6. New horizons in logic and rhetoric: Descartes and the port-royalists ; Bacon, Lamy, Hobbes, and Glanvill.