How come there is so much rich literature on physical fighting, from martial arts texts to military histories, but so little on verbal fighting? As in fighting dirty, not respectful debate or dialogue. Mockery, taunting, baiting, bad-faith logic... is there a manual of all that?
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Plato? All of the Socratic dialogues are about identifying postulations or contentions based on bad logic, with the dialogues whittling down why the arguments are poor. That's, y'know, kinda the value of the humanities. :-)
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Nope. Not what I'm talking about. That's more like sports, not active conflict. And no, that's decidedly not the value of the humanities, anymore than soccer training is military training.
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well, tbf "won on the playing fields of Eton" and all that, but yeah "*the* value" smells grossly reductive of both
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