You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Desrtopa comments on The Sin of Persuasion - Less Wrong Discussion

27 Post author: Desrtopa 27 November 2010 09:44PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (63)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Desrtopa 29 December 2010 08:58:30PM 1 point [-]

The dividing line comes from the fact that an impartial audience is not at all the same thing as a rational audience, and there's a lot more to rhetoric than making arguments that are logically sound and tenable.