Analytic/Dispersive

Synthetic/Dispersive

Root Metaphor: similarity

Root Metaphor: The historical event

Categories: Immanent and Transcendent forms

Categories: Change; Quality [the whole event]; Texture [the parts] -- but whole and parts are not separate.

Causality: The result of participation of patterns, norms, and laws through the forms of time and space; such laws are real, existent.

Causality: “Intrinsically complex” events are composed of interconnected or “integrated” activities; universe may or may not be deterministic.

Theory of Truth: Correspondence.

Theory of Truth: Operationalism: “A set of contextualistic categories; does not so much determine the nature of our world as lead one to appreciate fair samples of the world’s events.”  [System is after the fact.]

Exemplars: Plato, Aristotle, Santayana, Weaver

Exemplars: James, Dewey, Mead, K. Burke, Bormann.

[Classical rhetorical theory tends to be formist in nature.]

[Rhetorical theory related to symbolic interactionists tends to be contextualist.]

“Get to the top of things.”

Formism

Contextualism

Mechanism

Organicism

Analytic/Integrative

Synthetic/Integrative

Root Metaphor: Machine, either the lever or the electromagnetic field.

Root Metaphor: Integration of the Organism

Categories: Location in space-time; secondary [perceived]; primary [constituent] laws for configurations of primary categories and for regularities among secondary qualities. our private secondary qualities, infer their correlations with the physiological configurations which are in our organism and then infer the structural character of the surrounding field from its effects upon the configuration of our organism” [Pepper, 1942:229].

Categories: organic WHOLE transcending, economizing, saving, and resolving fragments of experiences with nexuses and contradictions or gaps.

Causality: Determinism

Causality: Teleological [a predetermined end]

Theory of Truth: “Causal-adjustment”—“We note the changes among

Theory of Truth: Coherence, “the categorical features of the organic whole—inclusiveness, determinateness, and organicity” [Pepper, 1942:310]

Exemplars: Lucretius, Locke, Einstein, Campbell, McLuhan, Brocknede

Exemplars: Hegel, Royce, F. H. Bradley, Appearance and Reality; K. E. Boulding, Ecodynamics

Physics—David Bohm

Biology—Fransisco Yarella

[Rhetorical theory based on behavioristic, associationistic, faculty, and behavioral psychology, attitudes, and attitude change is mechanistic.]

[No well-known rhetorical theories appear to be based on organism.]

Only particulars exist: “Get to the Bottom of Things.”

System is existent.