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NancyLebovitz comments on Arguments and relevance claims - Less Wrong Discussion

28 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 05 May 2014 04:49PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 May 2014 08:09:33PM 2 points [-]

I'm pretty sure every statement has more than two parts. I don't have an example handy, but I've been in arguments which just went around and around until someone figured out what premise of an initial statement was being disagreed with.