Chaïm Perelman (1912–2014) was a Belgian philosopher and logician known for his contributions to the fields of argumentation theory and rhetoric. He is perhaps best known for developing a practical approach to reasoning and argumentation, which he elaborated in his seminal work, "The New Rhetoric," co-authored with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca in 1958.
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