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Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten - The Art Of Controversy

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"Dialectic [...] has no other aim but to reduce to a regular system and collect and exhibit the arts which most men employ when they observe, in a dispute, that truth is not on their side, and still attempt to gain the day. [...] In a dialectical contest we must put objective truth aside, or, rather, we must regard it as an accidental circumstance, and look only to the defence of our own position and the refutation our opponent's. [...]

We shall be enabled to exhibit certain general stratagems which may be advantageous, as well for our own use, as for frustrating others if they use them."

Arthur Schopenhauer: Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten - The Art Of Controversy

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