2017-10-29

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Coffee Break

by hook or crook, you can be right even when you're wrong.

In this episode we analyze all the nasty ways to *seem* right to others even if you don't have facts and logic on your side.

The Tricks:

1. Postulate What Has To Be Proved

2. Choose Your Definitions

3. Persuade the Audience

4. Kafka Trap

5. Ad Hominem

6. Absurd Proposition

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IMPORTANT: this is not a political comment, nor is this a political channel... it just so happened that all the best examples of sophistry exists in politics. Just wanted to state that up front.

Arthur Schopenhauer - The Art of Being Right

Book: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/controversy/complete.html

Audiobook: https://librivox.org/the-art-of-controversy-or-the-art-of-being-right-by-arthur-schopenhauer/

Music: (in order of appearance)

Jinsang - times movin' fast

https://soundcloud.com/jinsangofficial/times-movin-fast

Sim - Sweet Soul

https://t.co/cBxHtd2t9W

Letsky - I'm Sick

https://soundcloud.com/letskey/im-sick

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