Quotes About Argumentation

Simply shovel everything that seems to support their view into the box marked 'Evidence' and say, ''See? Look at all this stuff. We must be right!'' Never mind the contradictions. Never mind the lack of independent supporting fact. Never mind the blatant absurdities.

Higher-order thinking draws upon and pulls together smaller pieces of knowledge. The ability of a student to interpret, compare, contrast, differentiate, question, appraise, argue, justify, critique and design relies upon the breadth, depth and strength of the knowledge they are drawing upon and pulling together.

It takes time and effort to soldier on and make your arguments.

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

The most important thing to do is to make the judge want to decide things your way, Darrow advised one of his younger partners. They are human beings, moved by the same things that move other human beings. The point of law merely give the judge a reason for doing what you have already made him want to do.

A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.

Beccaria - C'est dans un petit traité intitulé Des délits et des peines que l'on trouve la toute première argumentation philosophique contre la torture et la peine de mort.

Cuando no tienes buenos argumentos, a veces es mejor darle la vuelta a la tortilla y ponerte a preguntar tú. Lo aprendí en la clase de Introducción a los medios de comunicación.

Der Deutsche fährt nicht wie andere Menschen. Er fährt, um recht zu haben.

Il potere costituito su basi emotive è l'opposto della democrazia, che si fonda invece sulla discussione critica, sull'argomentazione, sulla ricezione di istanze molteplici: è un potere "che regredisce alla logica primitiva dell'amico/nemico, da cui la cultura occidentale ha cercato di emanciparsi proprio attraverso la politica, intesa come gestione razionale di interessi contrastanti [corsivo mio]".

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.

By reversing the proper order of things, the non-presuppositional apologist sees submission to God's Word as secondary, rather than primary, sees demonstration as the basis for faith, sees independent argumentation rather than the Holy Spirit as the source of conviction, and therefore advances the destruction of his own defense of the faith.

Attempting to be neutral in one's intellectual endeavors (whether research, argumentation, reasoning, or teaching) is tantamount to striving to erase the antithesis between the Christian and the unbeliever.