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DireStrike

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9. Agreed, these tactics are almost all dishonest tricks used to trip up a weak opponent.
Sat May 10, 2014, 03:49 PM
May 2014

I would like to see an article explicitly discussing how to watch for these tricks when observing an argument, and how to recognize and defeat them when holding an argument.

If your opponent uses these tactics in place of a good argument, you can win the argument just by pointing out the tricks.

Another dirty trick is to pretend your opponent is being dishonest, though this only works when your audience both cares about intellectual honesty and cannot tell what it is.

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