orthonormal comments on Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 30 December 2010 05:14:53AM 8 points [-]

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...Half the writing assignments will put into practice persuasive techniques such as these. The other half will analyze course readings (by Plato, Aristotle, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Jane Austen, George Orwell, and others) debating whether persuasion -- in the strong sense of actually changing a reader's mind -- is possible.

On the first day, they teach you how to quote selectively...