The Art of Always Being Right by A. C. Grayling

Author:A. C. Grayling [A.C. Grayling]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908096791
Publisher: Gibson Square
Published: 2012-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Use your opponent’s views

When your opponent advances a proposition, you must try to see whether it is not in some way—or only appears to be, if needs be—inconsistent with some other proposition which he has made or admitted, or with the principles of a school or sect which he has commended and approved, or with the actions of those who support the sect, or else of those who give it only an apparent and spurious support; or with his own actions or want of action.

For example, should he defend suicide, you may at once exclaim, ‘Why don’t you hang yourself?’ Should he maintain that Berlin is an unpleasant place to live in, you may say, ‘Why don’t you leave by the first train?’ Such claptrap is always possible.

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