Comments ‘Strategic Maneuvering through Persuasive Definitions: Implications for Dialectic and Rhetoric’

Comments on ‘Legitimation and Strategic Maneuvering in the Political Field’

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Comments on Vagueness Through Definitions

Most theories of vagueness characterize the phenomenon by reference to the extension of our concepts: the vagueness of a predicate is usually described by the existence of borderline cases, namely cases for which the predicate neither clearly applies, nor clearly fails to apply. A lot remains to be said about the relation between the existence of borderline cases and structural aspects of the m...

Persuasive Definitions:

The purpose of this paper is to inquire into the relationship between persuasive definition and common knowledge (propositions generally accepted and not subject to dispute in a discussion). We interpret the gap between common knowledge and persuasive definition (PD) in terms of potential disagreements: PDs are conceived as implicit arguments to win a potential conflict. Persuasive definitions ...

Strategic Maneuvering and Standardization:

It is widely speculated that the adoption of a technology takes off to be self-sustaining if it reaches the critical mass. However, the sponsors of competing technologies may engage in strategic maneuvering in the adoption process. Indeed, this paper shows that in the de facto standardization process of the U.S. home VCR market, there was strategic maneuvering by the Betamax sponsor, which crea...

Constrained Maneuvering : Rhetoric as a Rational Enterprise