Quantum inferential leaps: the rhetoric of physics

• Mark Lawrence McPhail ^[1]
  1. [1] Wayne State University

     Wayne State University

     City of Detroit, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 57, nº 3, 1991, págs. 178-193
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Contemporary connections between rhetoric and physics provide the basis for a consideration of the epistemological implications of our changing understanding of reality. Quantum physics has rejected the notion of an objective reality that exists independent of observers, and the notion of rhetoric as epistemic has also questioned the underlying assumptions of modernist conceptualizations of science and language. The rhetoric of physics offers a synthesis of these two areas of inquiry, and suggests important directions for rhetoricians interested in articulating a holistic and transformative vision of rhetoric.