When Should We Use Fictive Narrative Philosophy and When Direct Discourse Philosophy?

This book has set out two general strategies that constitute the field of philosophy: direct discourse and indirect discourse. In the first case, the preferred mode of expression is deductive, certain argument. In the second case, there are three modes of expression: reduction ad absurdum, inductive logic, and abductive logic. This chapter reviews several species within these two genera, with some examples of each in order to distinguish the aims. In the end, we have a revised picture of the field of philosophy.