...the Internet exposes the fact that most people were never trained to function effectively in the context of an argument. As forms of discourse such as debate, disputation, and oral cross-examination are largely absent within people’s education, relatively few have the ability to keep a level head in an argument, to have a close rein on their passions, to spar with opposing viewpoints, to open their strongly held beliefs up to questioning and challenge, or to operate well in contexts that allow for the expression of many different perspectives and arguments. - Alastair Roberts via Cary Schmidt via John Pettit. Tom Tracht did not contribute.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:36:10 +0000
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