Powerful Arguments
Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China
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Word Count
154,250 words, Guess
Page Count
617 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004422803
- ISBN-109004422803
- Library of Congress Control Number2019055563
- OCLC Control Number1127672810
- Better World Books9789004422803
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- Open LibraryOL28093657M
Classifications
- LCCBC39.5.C47P69 2020
- LCCBC39.5.C47 P69 2020
Description
"The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete arguments defended or contested in areas ranging from historiography, philosophy, law, and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system. By examining uses of evidence, habits of inference, and the criteria by which some arguments were judged to be more persuasive than others, the contributions recreate distinct cultures of reasoning. Together, they lay the foundations for a history of argumentative practice in one of the richest scholarly traditions outside of Europe and add a chapter to the as yet elusive global history of rationality"--
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