The Woolly-Thinker's Guide to Rhetoric
Thanks to Mr. Hinkley at
SemiSkimmed, we now know about the
The Woolly-Thinker's Guide to Rhetoric
Some examples:
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Develop sudden hearing loss
When your opponent makes a good point, a crushing argument, an incontrovertible case, simply fail to hear, and keep talking as if no one had spoken at all. Talk a bit louder. Lean toward your opponent with an intent, listening expression on your face, then continue to ignore what anyone else says.
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Do a Procrustes
Make the evidence fit the case you're trying to make. Force it. If it doesn't fit, don't give up, don't be shy, just keep pushing and hammering and chopping until it does. No one will notice.
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Moral One-upmanship
If people disagree with you, accuse them of Eurocentrism or elitism or intolerance or narrowness or conventional thinking or scientism or homophobia.
Lots more at the website - tools for your next debate... Heh...
Posted by DaveH at March 4, 2004 1:55 PM