From a semiotic perspective the problem with hypertext can be understood to be one of rhetoric. By rhetoric I mean “The art of using language so as to persuade or influence others....”The Oxford English Dictionary".
I would wish to extend this to include all philosophical discourse or certainly all philosophical argument. The purpose of any academic argument is to persuade others to accept the legitimacy of some viewpoint. Developing a persuasive argument is, of course, partly a matter of logic (that is some accepted code of reasonableness) and partly of evidence; but it is also partly a matter of presenting one’s reasonable analysis of appropriate evidence through established print or other representational conventions.
See that post with different algorithms in metabole
See the journal French Metablog with today different posts
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I would wish to extend this to include all philosophical discourse or certainly all philosophical argument. The purpose of any academic argument is to persuade others to accept the legitimacy of some viewpoint. Developing a persuasive argument is, of course, partly a matter of logic (that is some accepted code of reasonableness) and partly of evidence; but it is also partly a matter of presenting one’s reasonable analysis of appropriate evidence through established print or other representational conventions.
See that post with different algorithms in metabole
See the journal French Metablog with today different posts
Enter Hypertextual as a member
