Ways To Win An Argument!!!!!!

  • Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; Exaggerate it - The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow your own propositions remain, the easier they are to defend 


  • Use different meanings of your opponents words to refute his argument- For example : Deji says, You do not understand the transformation agenda of the Jonathan administration. You reply. Oh if it's Change  you're talking about,   i'll have nothing to do with them. You've succeeded in changing the whole argument.lol 

  •  Hide your conclusion from your opponent to the end, mingle your premises here and there in your talk, Get your opponent to agree to them in no definite order, by this route, you conceal your goal until you've reached all the necessary admissions to reach your goal. 
To be continued
Culled from Thirty- Eight ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer's "The Art Of Controversy"

 

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