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... argument that de facto government must be obeyed because it discharges the functions without which civil society would disintegrate , and because every questioning of it risks that disintegration . Logically this is an argument for ...
... argument that de facto government must be obeyed because it discharges the functions without which civil society would disintegrate , and because every questioning of it risks that disintegration . Logically this is an argument for ...
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... argument . As we might suppose , given its breadth , ' argument ' had special meaning . It was typically defined in a maddening tautology : ' An argument is any severall conceipt apt to argue that whereunto in reason it is referred'.1 ...
... argument . As we might suppose , given its breadth , ' argument ' had special meaning . It was typically defined in a maddening tautology : ' An argument is any severall conceipt apt to argue that whereunto in reason it is referred'.1 ...
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... argument suitable for all composi- tions . The different types of oratory - deliberative , forensic , epideictic - each had its own source of argument , set of topics , or ' places ' . The orator composing a deliberative oration would ...
... argument suitable for all composi- tions . The different types of oratory - deliberative , forensic , epideictic - each had its own source of argument , set of topics , or ' places ' . The orator composing a deliberative oration would ...
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Political theory and political practice | 34 |
Population economy and society in Miltons England | 72 |
The educational background | 102 |
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