Reverse Motte and Bailey: To win over an opponent, you have to not only defeat the argument they advance, but also the argument underlying what they are saying
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It’s usually easier to rebut the publicly signaled argument they’re making—those are flashy, provocative, unsound—but harder to the defeat the underlying
2:14 PM - 22 May 2018
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