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The essay reviews the relationship between logic and rhetoric under the conditions of historicity and shows how (and why) the rules of logic may be construed as projected from the rhetorical practices of actual societies; why and how they are subject to revision; and why there is reason to think it could not be otherwise.
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Margolis, J. Beyond postmodernism: Logic as rhetoric. Argumentation 9, 21–31 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00733098
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00733098