Topics, Tropes, Arguments III: Consequences: The Prism-House of Language

“Topics, Tropes, Arguments III: Consequences: The Prism-House of Language”: In keeping with a rhetorical duty of care to readers, and a promissory note to myself, the time is past due to unfold several assumptions, tactics, and distinctions I’ve been using all along, for a cleaning and fresh airing. I mean particularly terms like “ordinary language criticism,” “American Low Modernism” (referring to certain texts that respond especially well to a rhetorically philosophical reading), but here more urgently “reason,” “inference,” and “argument.”