Arthur Schopenhauer: The Art Of Controversy - c/d

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fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 5 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Interesting....

;- )

Masked Gazza, Sunday, 5 June 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

i should have called this thread "how to win every argument and see through propaganda. in 38 easy steps! ancient kraut tells you how" but i guess its too late now

fe zaffe (fezaffe), Monday, 6 June 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

"That's all very well in theory, but it won't do in practice." In this sophism you admit the premisses but deny the conclusion, in contradiction with a well-known rule of logic. The assertion is based upon an impossibility: what is right in theory must work in practice; and if it does not, there is a mistake in the theory; something has been overlooked and not allowed for; and, consequently, what is wrong in practice is wrong in theory too.

reminds me of a joke: a british man plans and builds a bridge. afterwards a frenchman says to him "that's all very well in practice, but will it work in theory?"

ryan (ryan), Monday, 6 June 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

Nevertheless, in a dispute with ordinary people, we may employ universal opinion as an authority. For it will generally be found that when two of them are fighting, that is the weapon which both of them choose as a means of attack. If a man of the better sort has to deal with them, it is most advisable for him to condescend to the use of this weapon too, and to select such authorities as will make an impression on his opponent's weak side.

Wes Brodicus, Sunday, 8 May 2016 16:40 (nine years ago)

six months pass...

timely

j., Saturday, 12 November 2016 17:54 (eight years ago)

five years pass...

Pessimism debunked pic.twitter.com/W7l7SZoVa5

— Yuri X (@yuri_communism) July 14, 2022

mark s, Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:39 (three years ago)

Guess that's a divorce..

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:31 (three years ago)

I think this is top 5 for repeatedly quoted letters on twitter. Alongside Joyce's fart letters.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:32 (three years ago)

was he married to his mum then?

mark s, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:34 (three years ago)

Lol, I assumed it was his wife.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:35 (three years ago)


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