Comment by Robert55 on Better Disagreement · 2011-10-23T15:11:52.329Z · LW · GW

These are 7 useful rules of thumb but the "Art of Controversy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right) is always going to be slippery. The tract by Schopenhauer is useful to read to see how more subtle moves can be played out. It is recommended not as a handbook but to be better armed against the spectrum of ploys that an opponent may play.