Styles of dialogue and argument

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Abstract

This short note is a musing on the existence of a distinct dialogue style or argument style characteristic of biosemiotics (in contrast to science in general), which emphasizes the importance of mastering abstract concepts and multiple theoretical perspectives, the ability to see advantages and limitations of all of them, and the ambition to use logic (semiotics) in analyses.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTunne loodust! : Knowing Nature in the Languages of Biosemiotics = Connaître la nature dans les langages de la biosémiotique
EditorsDon Favareau, Ekatarina Velmezova
Number of pages5
PublisherUNIL - Université de Lausanne
Publication date2022
Pages119-123
ISBN (Print)978-5-91674-678-5
Publication statusPublished - 2022
SeriesEpistemologica et historiographica linguistica Lausannensia
Volume4
ISSN2673-3315

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • philosophy of science
  • styles of reasoning
  • scientific consensus
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • dialogism
  • metaphor

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