''Universal rhetoric'' is a central concept in
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".
Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for t ...
's philosophy. According to Peirce, the main purpose of universal rhetoric is to consider questions of
Inquiry in the context of
community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ...
,
[Liszka (1996]
p.99
/ref> and "the very origin of the conception of reality shows that this conception ultimately involves a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge."[Lang, P. (2002]
''The semiotics of fate, death, and the soul in Germanic culture''
p.11, quoting from ''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', ''Volume 5, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism'' p.311
Peirce alternatively called it speculative rhetoric,[Houser, Nathan (2002]
''PEIRCE’S PRAGMATISM AND ANALYTICPHILOSOPHY:SOME CONTINUITIESl''
27 AGORA (2002), Vol. 21, n° 2; 11-32 general rhetoric, formal rhetoric, objective logic, or methodeutic.[Liszka (1996]
p.80
/ref> It constitutes the third and last branch of his general theory of signs.
See also
*Universal pragmatics
Universal pragmatics (UP), more recently placed under the heading of formal pragmatics, is the philosophical study of the necessary conditions for reaching an understanding through communication. The philosopher Jürgen Habermas coined the term ...
Notes
References
*Liszka, James Jakób (1996)
A general introduction to the semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce
' pp.79-80, 99
Charles Sanders Peirce
Inquiry
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