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

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 06 December 2013 05:18:01AM 0 points [-]

This is definitely a pitfall of the Socratic Method done badly. I suspect it really is possible to be more subtle about it, but that's tricky.