A01=Martin Warner
Author_Martin Warner
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Product details
- ISBN 9780198244554
- Weight: 672g
- Dimensions: 145 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1989
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
