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The New Rhetoric

Published 1 January 1971
Chaïm Perelman
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Abstract

I began working on what I now call the new rhetoric with only a vague idea of what it was about, with no intention to become a rhetorician.1 As a logician, I was interested in the study of reasoning, especially reasoning about values. I wanted to develop a logic of value judgments.

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