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ericlawton's review against another edition
3.0
Clickbait title. It's really about ways of winning an argument.
This is really by Schopenhauer, rather than Grayling, who just provides the preface and introduction. That was a disappointment to me as I love Grayling's books.
Many of the ways are not so subtle, many are "dishonest" in that they are about winning an argument, not about arriving at the truth, often by rhetorical trickery. However, the point is not to learn how to do that (I hope that's not your game), but to learn how to see that people are doing that and how to counter it.
Lots of "intentionally left blank" pages between chapters, which are short, so this is a quick read, though I wouldn't read more than one or two at once.
This is really by Schopenhauer, rather than Grayling, who just provides the preface and introduction. That was a disappointment to me as I love Grayling's books.
Many of the ways are not so subtle, many are "dishonest" in that they are about winning an argument, not about arriving at the truth, often by rhetorical trickery. However, the point is not to learn how to do that (I hope that's not your game), but to learn how to see that people are doing that and how to counter it.
Lots of "intentionally left blank" pages between chapters, which are short, so this is a quick read, though I wouldn't read more than one or two at once.
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