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Adelino Cattani
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Teoria de l'argumentació i pràctica de l'argumentació
2006
The problematic relationship between theory and practice is the core of this paper, with special regard to rhetoric as theory (as an explicative system supported by a rhetorician, that is a procedure of proof) and rhetoric as practice (as an operative system applied by an orator, that is a strategy of persuasion). The practice of argumentation is often bad from the cognitive, methodological, ethical and social point of view, but the theory of argumentation is valuable. And for philosophy, the argumentation, the instrument of rhetoric, is the only possible procedure of proof.
Las reglas del diálogo y los movimientos de la polémica
2003
We have to distinguish many types of debates, ranging from constructive dialogue to fighting polemic, two extreme types of exchanges marked by opposite traits: co-operative pattern vs. competitive pattern. Each of them have their typical argumentative schemes, rules or moves, and standard of evaluation. The values that come into play and into conflict are epistemic-conceptual values, dialectical-rhetorical values and ethical-interactional values. All of them may perhaps be unified under the general opposition ¿to be right¿ and ¿to succeed in persuading someone¿. It seems that a controversial attitude in debate, aiming to succeed in persuading by using polemical moves, is not only a classica…