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language-system. In the two remaining lectures, I am going to try to show
you how argumentation can be understood as being within the language-
system. Today, I have shown you that argumentation had to be understood
as being within the language-system but the thing now is to discover how
this is so. That is the problem which I will try to deal with in the follow-
ing sessions by bringing in the notion which I am working on the most for
the moment: the notion of topos. To do that, tomorrow, we will be studying
argumentation under its rhetorical aspect, and, after tomorrow, we will be
studying it under its linguistic aspect.
language-system. In the two remaining lectures, I am going to try to show
you how argumentation can be understood as being within the language-
system. Today, I have shown you that argumentation had to be understood
as being within the language-system but the thing now is to discover how
this is so. That is the problem which I will try to deal with in the follow-
ing sessions by bringing in the notion which I am working on the most for
the moment: the notion of topos. To do that, tomorrow, we will be studying
argumentation under its rhetorical aspect, and, after tomorrow, we will be
studying it under its linguistic aspect.