I don’t know if I agree with his assessment, but I immediately thought back to David Stove’s “worst argument in the world” aka “The Gem”.
Is it the worst argument in the world because it cannot be refuted or argued against? Maybe the one-sided argument is the way we define a bad argument.
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I don’t know if I agree with his assessment, but I immediately thought back to David Stove’s “worst argument in the world” aka “The Gem”.
Is it the worst argument in the world because it cannot be refuted or argued against? Maybe the one-sided argument is the way we define a bad argument.