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Comment author: mszegedy 07 February 2013 02:04:29AM *  0 points [-]

Oh, okay. That makes sense. So then what's the rational thing to conclude at this point? I'm not going to go back and argue with my friend—they've had enough of it. But what can I take away from this, then?

(I was using the French term philosophe, not omitting a letter, though. That's how my history book used to write it, anyway.)

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 February 2013 03:13:35AM *  1 point [-]

But what can I take away from this, then?

I've mentioned various possible takeaways in my other comments. A specific thing you could do differently in the future is to practice releasing againstness during arguments.