How to Argue

colohan said:
Interesting article on how to have a constructive debate:

http://barryeisler.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-argue.html

Chris

(It would be awesome if folks read this article, then sent this thread into the spin zone with their responses...)
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His first couple paragraphs appear to me to violate his very first guideline.

Otherwise he seems to cover things I believe are taught in rhetoric and logic courses. I've never taken any rhetoric classes, but I had to take logic and philosophy as a college freshman.

Sometimes insults are appropriate - when the objective isn't argument so much as it is communicating.:wink2:
 
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