Topics, Tropes, Arguments I: Terms

“Topics, Tropes, Arguments I: Terms”: Because rhetorical theorizing of the kind undertaken here requires, even more and in different ways than theory otherwise does, the particularities of practical cases, we might do well in this chapter to present fairly straightforward examples on beginning, selected in part because they can help us develop ideas offered by Brandom, Wittgenstein, and others to ballast the larger project. We can then entertain more involved cases throughout the book as we proceed.