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Title: PHILOSOPHICAL FINESSE
STUDIES IN THE ART OF RATIONAL PERSUASION
By: Martin Warner
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 019824455X
ISBN 13: 9780198244554
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 June, 1989
Pages: 412
Description: The aim of this text is to provide an understanding of rationality which is broader than that which underlies today's polarization between analytic and continental philosophy. Pascal's notion of finesse is extended to designate a related set of informal but legitimate styles of argument.
Synopsis: This book puts forward an interpretation of rationality which is much broader than the one underlying the current polarity between analytic and continental philosophy. It will help to reaffirm a range of ideas which have long been pushed to the sidelines by the dominance of the geometric model of philosophical argument. Descartes's dream of attaining a 'certitude equal to the demonstrations of Arithmetic and Geometry' reinforced the assumption that rationality must be assessed in terms of logical structure. Against this, Pascal invoked the notion of 'finesse', and Warner extends Pascal's usage in this book to specify a related set of informal but legitimate styles of argument.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Clarendon Press
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