Quotes About Debate

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

En una discusión, triunfamos cuando convencemos al público. En una lucha, vencemos cuando dominamos al enemigo.

utiliza la idea de tu contrincante para conseguir lo que deseas. Practica el jiu-jitsu retórico empleando los movimientos de tu rival para hacerle perder el equilibrio.

if the two of you are alone, walk away. If you have an audience, consider throwing the fallacy back at your opponent. "I see. Purple is a fruit. So, since your skin is tan, that makes you a pair of khakis.

Reframing entails refusing to accept the opponent's definition of what the issue is about, and then substituting your own. You define the issue in your terms.

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La verdad surge de la discusión entre amigos. DAVID HUME

while logic is excellent and noble, and a first-rate way to make a friend look like a drooling idiot, a perfectly logical argument fails to persuade most of the time.

Rhetoric has a name for debating that seeks to win points: eristic.

While the rest of the world fights, we'll argue. And argument gets you what you want more than fighting does.

En una lucha, los contendientes intentan vencer. En una discusión, intentan vencer a una audiencia, que puede incluir a los testigos directos, los telespectadores, un electorado o los interlocutores.

el argumento que apela al bastón (la lucha) no es un argumento. Jamás convence, tan solo inspira venganza o retirada.

La diferencia esencial entre una argumentación y una lucha: una argumentación efectuada con destreza consigue que la gente haga lo que tú quieras. Luchas para ganar; discutes para alcanzar un acuerdo.

And where abolitionists preached slavery as a violation against the higher law, Southerners angrily countered with their own version of the deity, that it was sanctioned by the Constitution. In the vortex of this debate, once the battle lines were sharply drawn, moderate ground everywhere became hostage to the passions of the two sides. Reason itself had become suspect; mutual tolerance was seen as treachery. Vitriol overcame accommodation. And the slavery issue would not just fade away.

Ce-ar fi putut face, ?i unul ?i cel?lalt, cu libertatea de gândire? ?i cu toleran?a? Fiindc?, ?i unul ?i cel?lalt, se considerau de?in?tori ai adev?rului.