This is to *interpret* your wrongness in the process of acknowledging it. This is not the same thing as trying to spin it or mitigate it or making excuses. This is about understanding and accommodating the new thing that made you wrong.
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Generally, when you are wrong in shallow ways (getting a solid fact wrong), it's not hard to admit it. Your natural resistance around deeper wrongness is because of your (correct) suspicion that there's probably something there that should force updates on ALL views.
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If you're wrong in a way that forces you to update a position, but your opponent is able to stay put and gloat-derp, and it's not something shallow, you're both probably missing something. As the one who's experienced the undermining first, you get to uncover what.
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Flipping the discipline, when you see your opponent slip up on a fact and forced to update, resist the temptation to treat it as an unforced error and an opening for you to "win" a point. You have the luxury of not being forced to understand, which is precisely why you should try
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Great thread although I think
@Evolving_Ego could appreciate it on more levels than I'm capable of....Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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You have a skilled way of communicating these type of things. Not mushy not subtweety. (I just LOL'd at myself searching for a joke or emoji, because of my perceived lack of said martial skill)
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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