steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
I as not aware there were rules to argument and debate.
In a formal debate it is up to the debatees and or the moderaters of the debtae to set rules.
I was never a conservative but in the 70s I wt aced Bill Buckley's Firing Lie on PBS.
He had several tactics. When loosing an argument he would resort to criticizing word usage and grammar.
'You said this but whet you should have said is that using these words'.
Along with ridicule there is hyperbole and the exclude middle. Politicians make use of the excluded middle.
I say black, my opponent says white, and there is no possibilties in between. Polarization. One side is exclussvely right and te oter exclusvely wrong with no intermediate definitions or alternates.
It all depends on the anature of the debate. Politics is not about proving a thesis, it is about swaying opinion.
Scientfic debate is about physical quantities and physical evidence.
In a formal debate it is up to the debatees and or the moderaters of the debtae to set rules.
I was never a conservative but in the 70s I wt aced Bill Buckley's Firing Lie on PBS.
He had several tactics. When loosing an argument he would resort to criticizing word usage and grammar.
'You said this but whet you should have said is that using these words'.
Along with ridicule there is hyperbole and the exclude middle. Politicians make use of the excluded middle.
I say black, my opponent says white, and there is no possibilties in between. Polarization. One side is exclussvely right and te oter exclusvely wrong with no intermediate definitions or alternates.
n logic, the law of excluded middle (or the principle of excluded middle) states that for every proposition, either this proposition or its negation is true. It is one of the so-called three laws of thought, along with the law of noncontradiction, and the law of identity.
It all depends on the anature of the debate. Politics is not about proving a thesis, it is about swaying opinion.
Scientfic debate is about physical quantities and physical evidence.