A glance at the historical development of the relationship between "theory of knowledge" and rhetoric in regard to the problem of determination

pp. 21-40

in: Michel Pêcheux, Language, semantics and ideology, Berlin, Springer, 1982

Abstract

The seventeenth-century position on the logico-philosophical relationship between determination and explication is supplied by a passage from the Port-Royal Logic, which Noam Chomsky has recalled to attention with the following commentary: