From Logic to Rhetoric

• Prelim pages | pp. i–vi
• Table of contents | pp. vii–ix
• Introduction | pp. 1–2
• Part One: Logic and Language
• 1. Frege or the Recourse to Formalization | pp. 3–16
• 1.1. Logic before Frege
• 1.2. Function and concept
• 1.3. The ideography and the principles of Fregean language theory
• 1.4. Sense and reference
• 1.5. Sense and meaning
• 1.6. Conclusion
• 2. Russell's Synthesis | pp. 17–34
• 2.1. Formalization and natural language
• 2.2. Definite descriptions
• 2.3. Propositional functions
• 2.4. The theory of types
• 2.5. Conclusion
• 3. Wittgenstein: From Truth Tables to Ordinary Language and the Implications of Generalized Analyticity | pp. 35–64
• 3.1. The Russellian heritage and its contradictions
• 3.2. The immanence of logic in language
• 3.3. Sense and reference
• 3.4. The language image (the picture theory of language)
• 3.5. Negation and the other logical constants
• 3.6. The Tractatus as initiation into silence
• 3.7. Ordinary language and its rules
• 3.8. Conclusion: Russell vs. Wittgenstein, a heritage
• 4. Hintikka or the Theory of Possible Worlds | pp. 65–84
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. Referential opacity
• 4.3. Ontological commitment and the elimination of single terms with Quine
• 4.4. Possible worlds and propositional attitudes
• 4.5. The implications of the alternativeness relation and the theory of modus
• 4.6. The ontological commitment
• 4.7. The interpretation of quantification as a question and answer game
• 4.8. Wittgenstein and Hintikka: A concluding comparison
• Part Two: Language and Context
• 5. Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Argumentation | pp. 85–98
• 5.1. The three levels of language
• 5.2. Logical syntax
• 5.3. Formalization and natural language
• 5.4. The renewal of argumentation
• 5.5. Perelman's new rhetoric
• 5.6. Argumentation in language or the ‘new linguistics’ of Anscombre and Ducrot
• 5.7. Conclusion
• 6. Dialectic and Questioning | pp. 99–114
• 6.1. Dialectic and Socrates
• 6.2. The middle dialogues: Dialectic and the hypothetical method
• 6.3. The late period: The question of being or the shift from the question to being
• 7. Argumentation in the Light of a Theory of Questioning | pp. 115–136
• 7.1. Why language?
• 7.2. The two major categories of forms
• 7.3. What is to be understood by ‘question’ and ‘problem’?
• 7.4. The autonomization of the spoken and the written
• 7.5. The proposition as proposition of an answer
• 7.6. What is meaning?
• 7.7. Meaning as the locus of dialectic
• 7.8. Argumentation
• 7.9. Literal and figurative meaning: The origin of messages ‘between the lines’
• Footnotes | pp. 137–142
• | pp. 143–147

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