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La rhétorique éléatico-gorgienne d'Alcidamas chez Diogene Laerce (IX, 54) et des quatre fonctions fondamentales du logos

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Alcidamas' Eleatic-gorgian Rhetoric in Diogenes Laertius (IX, 54) and the Four Fundamental Functions of the λόγος. This study aims to show that the testimony of Diogenes Laertius (IX, 54) regarding the four functions of the λόγος by Alcidamas (φάσις - άπόφασις - ἐρώτησις - προσαγόρευσις : affirmation - negation / question - answer) could be considered as justified from both rhetorical and philosophical points of view. It offers the opportunity for two trains of thought : the first pair (φάσις - ἀπόφασις) could be related to the anti -predicative function of λόγος, but also to the predicative function implied in Gorgias' own dialectics of ἀντίθεσις. The second pair (ἐρώτησις - προσαγόρευσις) would be related to the rhetoric of improvisation and of πολυτροπία, also characteristic of Gorgias' rhetoric. Two points are developed : 1) The gorgian dialectic eleatism of Alcidamas, in which are emphasised the concepts of truth and likelihood and of philosophy and the philosophic sophist ; 2) Alcidamas' hermeneutics, such as μίμησις τῶν πραγμάτων from the explanatory and stylistic point of view.