38 Ways to win an argument - internet division...
....or at least to pretend to win an argument on the internet while actually looking like a schmuck to anyone with an ounce of intelligence and a bare modicum of an attachment to logic...
....care of Arthur Schopenhauer.
Schopenhauer - who is most famous for writing a thick, impenetrable text that no one reads called "The World as Will and Representation, and who was Hitler's favorite philosopher - actually wrote a thin, readable book on the subject of "How to win every argument."
Because, apparently, he was that kind of a jerk.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
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Public Discourse,
Rhetoric,
Schopenhauer
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