aletheianink comments on According to Dale Carnegie, You Can't Win an Argument—and He Has a Point - Less Wrong

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Comment author: aletheianink 01 December 2013 05:32:55AM 0 points [-]

I agree. I think most people just want to talk at you, not with you, when they're determined to win, and very few people would ever follow a conversation the way Socrates' opponents do in Plato's works.