Can anyone recommend a good book on the fundementals of debating?
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Art of War
You can apply The Art of War to anything it's so broad, I wan't something specific.
Nowadays no one knows how to debate. Just keep asking why.
I'm not sure if you have enough time to learn much before the start of #eurocorn. :-)
Anyway, a very good technique is actually being quiet and weaponizing silence. People don't like awkward silences, so they keep yapping...
Being quiet was never my strong suit.
Although I appreciate the recommendation, this book is very verbose and assumes the reader is already familiar with the terminology surrounding debate.
It uses terms like *negationem consequentiae* casually and without explanation.
This book isn't intended for the novice, that's for sure.
Yes, I don't know of a friendlier book. I read it ten years ago, and the important ideas that stuck with me were that manners and reading the room are more important.
In my humble opinion, the Twitter format is superior for debates.
Oh, and I read it in Spanish — perhaps the translator deserves the credit!
Not a book perse, but learn the trivium, ala logic. Logical fallacies, the importance of establishing first principles, art of rhetoric and first truths... once you have a base, you can refine your art (rhetoric)
I've heard of that, It's like some kind of medieval framework?
The trivium was the framework for the classical education taught in grammar schools until they were abolished. It is only taught at elite schools now ala Eton etc..
All education for plebs is now Prussian system. Theres a huge difference. One teaches how to think, the other what to think.