Chaim Perelman

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Chaim Perelman (1912-1984) was a Jewish philosopher best known for his book The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation (Traité de L'argumentation - La Nouvelle Rhétorique) in 1958 with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. Perelman was a professor of logic and metaphysics at Université Libre in Brussels in 1944 and spent most of his career there. [1] His focus on mathematical logic would later shift to forms of discursive reasoning and notions of justice.

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Perelman, Chaïm "The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning"


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