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"The paper first presents a short survey of ancient and modern logical,
rhetorical and argumentative approaches (e.g., Aristotle, Quintilian,
Quine, Anscombre and Ducrot) studying the properties of paradoxical
utterances. This survey is followed by a tentative definition of
paradoxes as seemingly contradictory utterances triggering
conversational implicatures in the sense of Grice. The second part of
the paper takes a corpus of about 80 paradoxical utterances from
Cicero's speeches to show how they are used (1) for a devastating
criticism of Cicero's political enemies, (2) a milder form of criticism
in the case of his friends, when their political activities have
failed, (3) a praise of successful policies of Cicero and his political
friends and (4) a defense of unsuccessful activities started by Cicero
and his friends."
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