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The art of controversies / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ; translated and edited, with an introductory essay and notes by Marcelo Dascal ; with Quintín Racionero and Adelino Cardoso.

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The art of controversies / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ; translated and edited, with an introductory essay and notes by Marcelo Dascal ; with Quintín Racionero and Adelino Cardoso.
Author
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
Publication
Dordrecht : Springer, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Dascal, Marcelo.
  • Racionero, Quintín.
  • Cardoso, Adelino.
Description
lxxii, 516 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
New synthese historical library, 0082-111X ; v. 60
Uniform Title
New synthese historical library ; v. 60.
Alternative Title
G.W. Leibniz, the art of controversies
Subject
  • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716 > Knowledge, Theory of
  • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
  • Rhetoric > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-481) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • 1. Vices of mingled disputes -- 2. controversy of controversies -- 3. religion of a peasant -- 4. elements of thinking -- 5. balance of law -- 6. Can there be an obligation to believe? -- 7. Controversies on sacred matters -- 8. judge of controversies -- 9. Towards a heuristics for litigation -- 10. method of jurists and the method of doctors -- 11. Interpretation and argumentation in law -- 12. Towards a heuristics for discovery -- 13. Estimating the uncertain -- 14. Towards a numerical universal language -- 15. encyclopedia and the method of discovery -- 16. Towards a heuristics for persuading -- 17. other's place -- 18. Persuading a skeptic -- 19. On controversies -- 20. On principles -- 21. Two prefaces to the general science -- 22. Introduction to a secret encyclopedia -- 23. On the creation of a new logic -- 24. New openings -- 25.
  • 44. dynamics of formulating and expounding the system : to Nicolas-Francois Remond -- 45. use of logic against skepticism : to Karl G. Ehler.
ISBN
  • 1402052278 (hd.bd. : alk. paper)
  • 9781402052279 (hd.bd. : alk. paper)
  • 9781402081903 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007416699
OCLC
  • 74650633
  • SCSB-10868365
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