Abstract
Discusses “Quixote’s visor,” a rhetorical turn that conceals a logical gap, an appeal to frustration or necessity. Suggests that the form of Quixote’s visor, the testing of a series of possibilities, is a way of deriving logical and rhetorical inferences in response to acts of questioning. Discusses two “cousins”--Sherlock’s visor and Darwin’s visor.
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- College English
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- 1998-01-01
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- 10.58680/ce19983671
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