Una aproximación retórica al pensamiento

Abstract

The dominant view in psychology states that thought is a faculty given at the interior of the head, even in the brain, and it is displayed before the arising of a problem o situation; and once a "solution" is found, the thinking activity concludes. From another perspective, thought is explained as a social process shown all the time in cultural sphere, operating in daily life as rhetoric, that is, by arguing for and against an issue; and it remains open at every moment to the problem or situation arisen. The present paper is based on the position of the denominated rhetorical social psychology, which assumes that thought is a rhetorical thought and it works on the basis of arguments and counterarguments. So, this work claims that, just like debate in public space, thought is basically constituted by arguments.