The distinction between artificial and non-artificial proofs from Rhetoric to Semiotics
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1980-4016.esse.2025.231828Keywords:
Semiotics, Rhetoric, Art, Discourse, MethodAbstract
This text takes the point of view of the history of ideas to revisit the question of the relationship between semiotics and rhetoric. Seeking to take stock of the current scenario, the article aims to provide more elements for comparing theories of the sign and theories of language from the point of view of the long history of these themes. With this, one arrives at some common points that allow one to join a movement seeking to regroup the different arts and sciences of the text around “text” and “discourse”, conceived in a metaphorically expanded way. On this path, we start with the disciplinary divisions and the scope of rhetoric in antiquity, passing through the sharing of the competencies of the art of the Trivium. We present the French Enlightenment as one of the crucial moments in this history, in which the position that there is nothing outside of art is elaborated, in a stance that is both rhetorical and semiotic. We thus propose that it is possible to conceive a connection between rhetoric and semiotics that is stronger and more historically persistent than is commonly supposed, as well as being constitutive of the idea of method.
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