Topos and enthymeme

Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 105-117

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EID: 49749101623     PISSN: 07348584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/rh.2002.20.2.105     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Aristotle, Rhetoric, rev. Oxford translation, in Jonathan Barnes ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle (Princeton University Press, 1984). All further references to this work will be given parenthetically in the text of the essay.
2. For an historical summary of the difficulties, see William M. A. Grimaldi, S. J., "The Aristotelian Topics," in Keith M. Erickson ed., Aristotle: The Classical Heritage (New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1974) pp. 176-3.
3. A modern view of topos is given in Richard McKeon's "Creativity and the Commonplace," Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery (Woodbridge CT: Ox Bow Press, 1987) pp. 25-36.
4. William M. A. Grimaldi, S. J., Aristotle: Rhetoric I: A Commentary (New York: Fordham University Press, 1980) p. 144.
5. Grimaldi, "The Aristotelian Topics," p. 186.
6. Donovan Ochs, "Aristotle's Concept of Formal Topics," in Keith M. Erickson ed., Aristotle: The Classical Heritage (New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1974) pp. 197 and 200.
7. Eugene E. Ryan, Aristotle's Theory of Argumentation (Montreal: Bellarmin, 1984) p. 19.
8. H. C. Lawson-Tancred, "Introduction" to his translation, Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991) p. 19.
9. Rudolfus Kassel, Aristotelis Ars Rhetorica (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1976).
10. M. F. Burny eat, "Enthy meme: Aristotle on the Rationality of Rhetoric," in Amelia Olsenberg Rorty ed., Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric (University of California Press, 1996) p. 99.
11. Paul Thom, The Syllogism (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1981) p. 22.
12. Edna E. Kramer, The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics (New York: Hawthorne, 1970) pp. 122-24.
13. Elliott Mendelson, Introduction to Mathematical Logic (Princeton: D. van Nostrand, 1964), shows that "If p → q, and q → r, then p → r," (where " → " is the conditional defined by "not-p or q") is a theorem of the usual predicate calculus of modern logic, which uses modus ponens as its rule of inference (pp. 30-32). The proof of the converse, that the "law of the syllogism" implies modus ponens, is straightforward.
14. According to Jan van Ophuijsen, "Where Have the Topics Gone?," in William W. Fortenbaugh and David C. Mirhady eds, Peripatetic Rhetoric after Aristotle (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 1994) pp. 131 and 157-61, the hypothetical syllogistic was begun by Aristotle's student, Theophrastus.