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(1986) Practical reasoning in human affairs, Dordrecht, Springer.
By common consent it is agreed that Perelman's idea of the universal audience is a central thesis in all of his writings on rhetoric. Because of the space which Perelman devoted to this issue, the subject has received considerable attention by students of argument; and this, in turn, has generated numerous responses from the author. Before proceeding to answer some of his critics shortly before his death, Perelman observed: "It is the notion of the universal audience which has created the most misunderstandings among my rhetorician readers."1 Most of the misunderstandings that occurred, he reminded his critics in this essay, stemmed from their apparent misinterpretaion of what was said in parts of The New Rhetoric.2
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4674-3_15
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Golden, J. L. (1986)., The universal audience revisited, in J. L. Golden & J. J. Pilotta (eds.), Practical reasoning in human affairs, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 287-304.
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