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Part 1 searches the rhetorical background of Iago's and Othello's respective speech habits, the one characteristically ingenious and the other apodeictic. Altman's account of Shakespeare's rhetorical inheritance examines the works of Greek sophists, especially Protagoras and Plato, to show how Iago's rhetorical handle on Othello's situation and disposition (kairos) causes Othello to abandon questions of probability for false certitude.

(13) In his influential work, We Have Never Been Modern (first translated into English in 1993 by Catherin Porter), Bruno Latour highlights specific crises, which he identifies as "hybrids," such as global warming and the AIDS epidemic, that resist the modern desire to separate nature from culture, that deny the situation of modernity in which, "we live in communities whose social bond comes from objects fabricated in laboratories; ideas have been replaced by practices, apodeictic reasoning by a controlled doxa, and universal agreement by groups of colleagues" (21).

By conflating <human rights>, "America," "freedom," and various elements of neoliberal capitalist thought through the myth of American exceptionalism, Bush crafted powerful apodeictic justifications for his political and military actions in the Middle East.

Yet it is perhaps precisely in the general principles of characterisation that it might have been possible to find a better solution, giving apodeictic rather than merely emotive force to Kirby J's protest (123) that the majority view would, in effect, render s 51(xxxv) 'otiose, or at least optional for most purposes, effectively consigning it to ...

After settling down with Lureen, he starts riding red farm machinery instead of black bulls, the apodeictic violence and self-assertion of the alpha male now yielding to purpose and utility.

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant claimed to derive the modal categories of possibility, existence, and necessity from the three logical forms (problematic, assertoric, and apodeictic) of modal judgment.

For Socrates, what is important is to know myself, not the apodeictic certainty that I am because I think.

68-9: 'The apodeictic certainty of all geometrical propositions, and the possibility of their a priori construction, is grounded in this a priori necessity of space.

As a matter of fact, given Derrida's apodeictic statement that 'all sentences of the type "deconstruction is X" (...) a priori miss the point' (quoted in Lehman 1991: 23), this kind of criticism is unavoidable, and it has been raised against every attempt to 'tame' deconstruction (Ellis 1989: 10).