Rhetoric and paradox in scientific revolutions

• William Keith ^[1] ; Kenneth Zagacki ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Louisville

     University of Louisville

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Louisiana State University

     Louisiana State University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 57, nº 3, 1991, págs. 165-177
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this paper we argue that scientists intending to be revolutionary face certain rhetorical constraints. These constraints contain contradictory requirements, forcing a rhetorical paradox on the would‐be revolutionaries. We examine the nature of this paradox and the available resolutions to it.