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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 

The world as sophistry

Schopenhauer was a brilliant man in many ways, but he can be a bit hard to read. Not so with this volume, which correctly points out that the goal of an argument is not to be right, but merely to win, and then goes on to show you how to do it. Pick it up and then watch a debate on TV or something and you'll see he was way ahead of his time.



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