Economic Positivism as Rhetoric

Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Argument

Many lawyers lack a basic understanding of the structure and process of legal argumentation. Their limited understanding, which often leads to less than effective advocacy, stems from legal education's failure to make the structure and process of legal argument explicit and systematic. One approach to this problem is to explore the intrinsic relationship of law to rhetoric. Because law and rhet...

Rhetoric As Knowledge

A proper assessment of the relation between discourse structure and speaker's communicat ive intentions requires a better understanding of communicative intentions. This contribution proposes that there is a crucial difference between intending the hearer to entertain a certain belief (or desire, or intention), and intending to affect the strength with which the hearer entertains the belief (or...

In Defense of Positivism

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Value of spatial data: networked performance beyond economic rhetoric

Assessing the economic value of spatial data is problematic for various reasons – conceptual as well as operational. The paper argues that understanding the value of spatial data will benefit from the market discourse. Salient conditions for its value can be identified when spatial data are viewed in terms of market transactions rather than in terms of neoclassical economic rhetoric. Therefore,...