Jean-Claude Anscombre

Argumentativity and Informativity

Studies in the new rhetoric have accustomed us to minimizing the role played in argumentation by facts and deduction from facts. More precisely, C. Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca have pointed out the many interferences that exist between this factual or objective basis (in the usual sense of the term “objective”) and the intersubjective relationships that the speaker establishes with his audience.