All else being equal I would prefer to not rely on the exploitation of cognitive biases and weaknesses in reasoning in order to do so.
You don’t sound like someone well-versed in what rhetoric is about. It has been closely linked with reason from the beginning—indeed, it is from rhetoric that the discipline of logic first sprang, since reason is so vital to rhetoric.
You don’t sound like someone well-versed in what rhetoric is about.
The personal comment is neither necessary nor accurate.
Do not assume that I reject rhetoric and debate in general merely because I have deployed soldiers against them in a battle for one particular territory. It is clear that I am comfortable engaging in this debate. I am also employing far more from the body of rhetorical techniques than the strict subset of cold logic.
It may be that I disagree with you on just which category of debating situations and contexts are useful vs a recipe for bad epistemic hygene. But my assertion that arguments where the implicit reward structure is too far divorced from accuracy are a recipe for bad habits of thought is hardly controversial.
You don’t sound like someone well-versed in what rhetoric is about. It has been closely linked with reason from the beginning—indeed, it is from rhetoric that the discipline of logic first sprang, since reason is so vital to rhetoric.
On the other hand, we have this.
Rhetoric is indeed a knife, not necessarily on the side of truth in the wrong hands.
The personal comment is neither necessary nor accurate.
Do not assume that I reject rhetoric and debate in general merely because I have deployed soldiers against them in a battle for one particular territory. It is clear that I am comfortable engaging in this debate. I am also employing far more from the body of rhetorical techniques than the strict subset of cold logic.
It may be that I disagree with you on just which category of debating situations and contexts are useful vs a recipe for bad epistemic hygene. But my assertion that arguments where the implicit reward structure is too far divorced from accuracy are a recipe for bad habits of thought is hardly controversial.