This is my place to vent, to pontificate, to educate, to defame, to expound, and yes, to wax rhapsodic. It's my personal brand of logic applied to the world, and it works for me.
Victorious warriors win first, then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. – Sun Tzu Okay, so we’ve defined what an argument is; now we need to realize what our intent is in even participating in this argument. There are a few reasons that people argue. [...]
If you go in for an argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. – Joseph Farrell Part 2: Definitions One of the most crucial things to any argument, the very framework on which it lies, is definitions. It is so easy to get lost in [...]
As a USENET discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. – Godwin’s Law What luck for rules that men do not think" – Adolf Hitler Arguments involve a lot of different strategies in order to prove a point. You can use the obvious method of battling fact for [...]
Part 1: Introduction Arguing is seen as something different to different people. It’s seen as something bad, something good, something to be avoided, something to be proud of — but everyone does it. Repeatedly and almost daily. Personally, I’ve always viewed arguing as another martial art — the vocal equivalent to kung fu — and [...]