NEW CATEGORIES OF ARGUMENT
Excerpt from “Mastery > Debate > Types of Discourse”
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7) NEW: CRITIQUE: A type of deceitful argument that uses heaping of undue praise, selective information, asymmetric information, loading, framing, overloading, suggestion, deceit, lying and fraud, by heaping of undue praise, criticizing a competing position, rather than demonstrating that one’s own proposition survives scrutiny. Practice proposes a poorly articulated ideal by heaping undue praise upon it, then constructing a straw man of the opposition argument, and constructing a detailed criticism of it. The purpose of this technique is not to advance the stated solution that the audience does not understand, or is not familiar with, but to undermine the audience’s confidence in the opposing argument that the audience does understand, or is familiar with. In other words: polluting the commons with disinformation.
8) NEW: CRITICISM : A type of scientific argument spoken or written, that uses ratio-scientific arguments to attempt to falsify a proposition in order to determine whether it can survive scrutiny. A criticism is used to test propositions in the physical sciences.
9) NEW: *PROSECUTION* : A type of scientific argument, spoken or written, that seeks determine if a proposition is false, biased, wishful, suggestive, deceptive, our outright fraudulent, in order to obtain a discount, rent, or theft. A Prosecution is used to test propositions in the cooperative sciences.
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Source date (UTC): 2016-05-17 06:37:00 UTC