buybuydandavis comments on [LINK] Two Modes of Discourse: Taking everything personally v. debate as sport - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 December 2012 03:56:30PM 3 points [-]

That's a pretty good one. Thanks.

But I think there was one with levels beyond "refutation of the central point". More of a "delimit and extend", where you show the bounds of validity of an argument, and what's true more generally beyond those bounds.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 10 December 2012 04:07:59PM *  4 points [-]
Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 December 2012 04:20:44PM 4 points [-]

Looks like Paul Graham+.

Still, at the end, one has refuted something. I think the highest levels should find the value in the argument you're refuting, and incorporate it into your own result. Synthesize, instead of refuting.