The paper tries to show that when the deepest or foundational aspects of truth are at issue, both consequentially logical argument and rhetoric that aims to establish truth or justified conviction must engage with the being, or the irreplaceable particularity, of its audience’s members and also that of the arguer, what we refer to in ordinary language as who the person is. Beyond the existing discussion of existential rhetoric, the paper argues that this engagement with being is necessary to establish not only truth that directly concerns or turns on the arguer’s and audience’s being, but also truth or justification about fundamental aspects of things and issues in general. Further, the address of being requires us to suspend both our own and our addressees’ familiar conceptual frameworks in order to allow being to emerge in its own terms. As a result, in contrast with our usual understanding of argumentation, the rhetorician’s initial aim and procedure will be to achieve a genuine suspension of conviction and even of the appropriate concepts under which to proceed, and so to produce a fundamental confusion. The paper then outlines some consequences for rhetoric and reasoning and also the structure of the process of working with this fundamental confusion.

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作为与存在的接触的修辞和逻辑推理

该论文试图表明，当真理的最深层次或基本方面存在争议时，旨在确立真理或正当信念的相应逻辑论证和修辞必须涉及其受众成员的存在或不可替代的特殊性，并且论者，我们在日常语言中所指的人是谁。除了对存在修辞的现有讨论之外，本文还认为，这种与存在的接触对于建立直接涉及或转向论证者和观众存在的真理是必要的，而且对于一般事物和问题的基本方面的真理或正当性也是必要的。此外，存在的地址要求我们暂停我们自己和我们的接收者熟悉的概念框架，以便让存在以其自己的方式出现。因此，与我们通常对论证的理解相反，修辞学家的最初目标和程序将是实现真正的信念暂停，甚至是继续进行的适当概念的暂停，从而产生根本性的混乱。然后，本文概述了修辞和推理的一些后果，以及处理这种基本混乱的过程的结构。