FROM LOGIC TO RHETORIC -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: LANGUAGE AND LOGIC -- 1. FREGE OR THE RECOURSE TO FORMALIZATION -- 1.1. Logic before Frege -- 1.2. Function and concept -- 1.3. The ideography and the principles of Fregean language theory -- 1.4. Sense and reference -- 1.5. Sense and meaning -- 1.6. Conclusion -- 2. RUSSELL'S SYNTHESIS -- 2.1. Formalization and natural language -- 2.2. Definite descriptions -- 2.3. Propositional functions -- 2.3.1. The ambiguity of the concept o f propositional function -- 2.3.2. The ambiguity in quantification -- 2.4. The theory of types and the axiom of reducibility -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 3. WITTGENSTEIN: FROM TRUTH TABLES TO ORDINARY LANGUAGE AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF GENERALIZED ANALYTICITY -- 3.1. The Russellian heritage and its contradictions -- 3.2. The immanence of logic in language -- 3.3. Sense and reference -- 3.4. The picture theory of language -- 3.5. Negation and the other logical constants -- 3.6. The Tractatus as initiation into silence -- 3.7. Ordinary language and its rules -- 3.8. Conclusion: Russell vs. Wittgenstein, a heritage -- 4. HINTIKKA OR THE THEORY OF POSSIBLE WORLDS -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Referential opacity -- 4.3. The ontological commitment and the elimination of singular terms with Quine -- 4.4. Possible worlds and propositional attitudes -- 4.5. The implications of the alternativeness relation and the theory of models -- 4.6. Ontological commitment -- 4.7. The interpretation of quantification as a question and answer game -- a) Names and descriptions -- b) Natural language and interrogatives -- c) Interrogatives and quantification -- d) The rules of the game -- e) Remarks -- 4.8. Wittgenstein and Hintikka: A concluding comparison -- PART TWO: LANGUAGE AND CONTEXT.

5. SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS AND ARGUMENTATION -- 5.1. The three levels of language -- 5.2. Logical syntax -- 5.3. Formalization and natural language -- 5.4. The renewal of argumentation -- 5.5. Perelman's new rhetoric -- 5.6. Argumentation in language or the 'new linguistics' of Anscombre and Ducrot -- 5.7. Conclusion -- 6. DIALECTIC AND QUESTIONING -- 6.1. Dialectic Socrates -- 6.2. The Middle Dialogues: Dialectic and the hypothetical method -- 6.3. The Late Period: The question of being or the shift from the question to being -- 7. ARGUMENTATION IN THE LIGHT OF A THEORY OF QUESTIONING -- 7.1. Why language? -- 7.2. The two major categories of forms -- 7.3. What is to be understood by 'question' and 'problem'? -- 7.4. The autonomization of the spoken and the written -- 7.5. The proposition as proposition of an answer -- 7.6. What is meaning? -- 7.7. Meaning as the locus of dialectic -- 7.8. Argumentation -- 7.9. Literal and figurative meaning: The origin of messages "between the lines" -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES.