And yall blamed 3017 when it was obvious he is a very good debater,he just had a terribly uncharitable and poor debater who upended the debate. — Protagoras
I could be missing the obvious, — 3017amen
The obvious is that in any argument or proof there must be something that ties the conclusion to the premises - the knot being either all right or all wrong — tim wood
and what I can steal from it for my own use. — Olivier5
And if he assumed the world could not be understood by human minds, then he wouldn't try day after day to do so. — Olivier5
am asking why you think it is necessary to argue against a claim for which there is not good reason to think it might be true — Fooloso4
see it, it is not so much a matter of convincing others but of making an argument that is convincing. It seems curious to me if someone were to make an argument they did not intent to make convincingly. — Fooloso4
But if you are not convinced that there is something in what is said worth stealing you wouldn't.
As I see it, it is not so much a matter of convincing others but of making an argument that is convincing. It seems curious to me if someone were to make an argument they did not intent to make convincingly. — Fooloso4
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