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The objective of this article is to characterize the arguments for sovereignty and for federalism in Quebec. It analyzes the constituent parts of two opposed argumentative triads: a nationalist deductive reasoning, a responsibility argument, and a necessity argument in favor of sovereignty; and a supranationalist analogical reasoning, a merit argument, and a harmful effects argument in favor of federalism. It then takes up certain considerations that suggest the federalist argument has a higher persuasive potential than the argument for sovereignty.
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Le but de la thèse est de comprendre l'origine et le fonctionnement des couples philosophiques tels que présentés par Chaim Perelman et Lucie OlbrechtsTyteca dans la théorie de l'argumentation. Notre recherche sur cette intuition originale d'une structuration du discours philosophique par des couples de notions de base nous a conduit à regarder du côté de la sémiotique pour en comprendre le fonctionnement et nous a obligé à questionner la pertinence de la préoccupation de la philosophie traditionnelle envers l'origine
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ABSTRACTThe possibility of defining the rationality upon the only basis of communicative actions (Kommunikative Handeln) and forms of life lies at the root of several difficulties, of which Habermas' attempts give a very significant example. Legitimation is its touchstone. It is the central point of the Apel-Habermas controversy and it is the basis of its latest developments. Apel and Habermas are both seeking an out- come by looking at " claims to validity " (Geltungsansspriiche) which they consider to be embodied in communicative actions. So they appeal at the same time to a pragmatist account of rationality and to some Unconditional, which is the main source of the dilemmas and disagreements they have to cope with. One may wonder whether the kind of tension which strikes the tie relating argumentation to some " transcendant moment " is not built into the very notion of communicative rationality. But one may also wonder whether some illumination, if not outcome, might not consist in some attempt to investigate the very connections between Necessary and Arbitrary.
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ABSTRACTThis article attempts to seek what breaks the path to enlarge or to "stop" in either way, the controversy about aesthetical critereas in the recent research on rationality in German Aesthetics. The interest holds on the supplementary distinctions brought by M. Seel in this debate, and also on what its adomian and communicative sources sustained in his approach. Finally, we also mesure the break through accomplished by this notion and what it's fails to cross.
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AbstractThe author of this article offers some new theoretical perspectives on argumentation and subjectivity in the essay. Starting with a discussion of previous research, he aims to demonstrate how the originality of the essay is often based on the close link between knowledge and the self. Subjectivity in the essay allows for the creation of a “fiction of the self”, which is akin to that of autofiction. Argumentation in the essay seems in part dependent on the way in which the essayist situates himself in relation to knowledge. In order to illustrate the diversity of essayistic practices, the author discusses a varied corpus including the works of Brault, Barthes, Kundera, Quignard, and Houellebecq.
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In this paper, critical narrativity is considered from a double perspective, that of the narrative aspect in literary critique on the one hand and of the critical dimension of narration on the other. Using examples from the latest Quebecois literary corpus, the aim is to link argumentation and narration in both types of texts, thus showing the present trend towards hybridation between critique and narration ; a process which has led each category to pour over, into the other, critique leaving a certain structuralist orthodoxy in order to make some fictional knowledge its own, narration largely welcoming the critical discourse as to offer a knowledgeable fiction.
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Amphiboly has been widely recognized, starting from the time of Aristotle, as an informal fallacy arising from grammatical ambiguity. This paper applies the profiles of dialogue tool to the fallacy of amphiboly, providing a five-step evidence-based procedure whereby a syntactically ambiguous sentence uttered in a natural language text can be evaluated as committing a fallacy of amphiboly (or not). A user applies the tool to a natural language text by comparing a descriptive graph, representing how the argumentation actually went, to a normative graph, representing how the argumentation should ideally have proceeded.
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ABSTRACTThis paper investigates language procedures and their role in bearing the enunciative weight of discourse. These procedures enable meaning to be produced by emphasizing the possibility of substitution of the language's lexical resources (rather than their discursive use); they serve to construct the designational paradigms that will support the judgments being made. Basing our study on an article entitled "Autopsie d'une mini-crise" (from Le Devoir, July 11, 1998, p. A9), we will explore the lexical procedures through which the enunciator manages the enunciative voices in the text, so as to construct a fallacious appeal to authority on which his entire argument is based.