Lying, Misleading, and What is Said

Lying, Misleading, and What is Said
Author: Jennifer Mather Saul
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199603685

Jennifer Saul presents a close analysis of the distinction between lying to others and misleading them, which sheds light on key debates in philosophy of language and tackles the widespread moral preference for misleading over lying. She establishes a new view on the moral significance of the distinction, and explores a range of historical cases.

Oakland

Oakland
Author: George W. Calderwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1896
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

What is Rhetoric?

What is Rhetoric?
Author: Michel Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2017
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199691827

This book offers a new unified approach to rhetoric, a means of persuading or influencing interlocutors. All the principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theorists are integrated into Michel Meyer's 'problematological' conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought.