An Inquiry Into The Method Of The Rhetoric Of Science

The twentieth century philosophy of science has experienced three turns: language turn, hermeneutic turn, rhetoric turn. With the rhetoric turn, the method of the rhetoric of science has gradually permeated through and expanded into the science research area. Under the premise of rhetoric analyses, on the basis of scientific hermeneutic, scientific sociology, and scientific philosophy, the method is invented, which is also a debate and testify methodology used in the scientifical language stratage or argument stratage. The essay analyses the function of scientific rhetoric methodology in details, and put forward its heuristic principle.The first part mainly summarize the scientifical rhetoric method. Compare with the definition of rhetoric, the author introduced the definition and characteristic of scientific rhetorical methodology. In this passage, Rhetoric means an art of persuasive, a skill of convincing other people in the argument. Scientific rhetoric method is invented under the premise of rhetoric analyses, on the basis of scientific hermeneutic, scientific sociology and scientific philosophy .In that case, this method has the features of hermeneutic, persuasive and circumstance identify.For the second part, the author concentrates on the function of scientific rhetoric method, which can be helpful in the society usage, improving the efficiency of scientific argument, finding out the potential idea in scientific argument as well. Generally speaking, the method played an very important role in scientific discovery, discuss, and demonstration. Moreover, it is important in the scientific argument, which helps to discuss by visual and informal examples. And invention, mainly reveals in the field of stratage, topic and organization creation. As well as them, the construction and development function mainly realized in the way of metaphor.