RATIOCINATIO  

SPEECH ACT of developing one's points of view through rational reflection and reasoned argument.

Hypernym
  • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
    • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Hyponym
  • POPULISMUSRATIOCINATIO in which popular consensus is adduces as evidence for the truth of what one is saying. Appeal to the judgment or experience of many or of general consensus. Traditionally called APODIXIS!
    • SECURITASRATIOCINATIO offering oneself as the witness or guarantor of the truth of what one is saying. Offering oneself as guarantor or surety for a statement.
      • SOURCE CRITICISMRATIOCINATIO in which one explicitly discusses the value of one's sources as evidence for one's conclusions. Explicit discussion of the reliability of sources adduced in support of one's argument.
        • SOURCE CRITICISM-REASONED　評價根據法 Explicit discussion of the reliability of sources adduced in support of one's argument, with reasons given for one's preferences among the sources.
        • AFFICTIORATIOCINATIO in which one wrongly attributes to one's opponent a statement which one then goes on to refute.
          • ANTICIPATIORATIOCINIATIO which anticipates and refutes possible countrerarguments.
            • DEMONSTRATIORATIOCINATIO in the form of what poses as a formal logical or strict empirical proof.
              • CONFUTATIO　DEMONSTRATIO to the effect that a statement upheld by sonmeone else is false.
                • INDUCTIO　DEMONSTRATIO of a general truth on the basis of particular instances.
                • DIHAIRESISRATIOCINATIO basing itself on the systematic division of a subject into its essential constitutive parts or typical kinds.
                  • ELENCHOSRATIOCINATIO in which a point of view, is problematised and taken up for rational discussion.
                    • ENDOXONRATIOCINATIO in the form of appeal to commonly shared opinion.
                      • EXPERIENTIARATIOCINATIO based on personal direct experience.
                        Rhetorical device locations: 0