Vico also addressed argumentation. His primary belief was that ideas compete with one another in this social domain through language. Therefore, Rhetoric was the central logic of social behavior in that it conditions how ideas were shaped, selectively lived or died, and how history is shaped. The ideas are in constant competition. Language is concerned with shaping action and, as such, it always has a context.
Language has no concern for abstracts, but with a particular subject at a given time.
These particular metaphoric relationships are more important than the abstracts. Fundamentally, jurisprudence is the model for social behavior. The parts of the language we keep are valid. Vico argues that style is the strength of a language because it copes with the inadequacies of representation. Since words only represent things, we must combine words in creative ways to elicit the unique character of a thing through the metaphoric relationship of language.