byrnema comments on Let Them Debate College Students - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 September 2009 06:15PM

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Comment author: thomblake 10 September 2009 01:13:54PM 1 point [-]

All else being equal I would prefer to not rely on the exploitation of cognitive biases and weaknesses in reasoning in order to do so.

You don't sound like someone well-versed in what rhetoric is about. It has been closely linked with reason from the beginning - indeed, it is from rhetoric that the discipline of logic first sprang, since reason is so vital to rhetoric.

Comment author: byrnema 10 September 2009 01:18:50PM *  0 points [-]

On the other hand, we have this.

Rhetoric is indeed a knife, not necessarily on the side of truth in the wrong hands.