Herbert W. Simons
Emeritus Professor of Communication, Temple University
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THE RHETORIC OF PHILOSOPHICAL INCOMMENSURABILITY

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Table of Contents:

• Introduction

• Neo-Sophists and Traditionalists

• Kuhnian Incommensurability Revisited

• Incommensurability in the Debate About Protogorean Relativism

• Incommensurability in the Debate About Kuhnian Incommensurability

• Explaining Intractability and Convergence of Belief

• Impasse and Convergence in the Debate Between Traditionalists and Neo-Sophists

• Conclusion

• Rhetorical Deconstruction

• Rhetorical Reconstruction