Not often enough to justify my use of the word “often”, so I’ll change that. Sample size of 2. “Effective” as a better way of getting out of a fruitless discussion than refusing to discuss it or waiting it out; no changing of minds was observed.
Framing it as a way to resolve an argument was mostly a narrative device for making people aware of this common logical inconsistency, which I usually see in written text where I don’t have the chance to argue back.
Not often enough to justify my use of the word “often”, so I’ll change that. Sample size of 2. “Effective” as a better way of getting out of a fruitless discussion than refusing to discuss it or waiting it out; no changing of minds was observed.
Framing it as a way to resolve an argument was mostly a narrative device for making people aware of this common logical inconsistency, which I usually see in written text where I don’t have the chance to argue back.
You said misanthropes and bleeding hearts. Do you only have one sample of each, or none of one?