In this list of argumentative strategies written by Arthur Schopenhauger, we can see a direct relation between the ways people usually argue, and actual debating/argumentative strategies commonly used by professionals, lawyers, and politicians. These are rather commonly used to make a point, change the opponent’s mind, and state your beliefs, among others. Some examples of these rules that Arthur wrote about are to ignore your opponent’s proposition, which was intended to refer to some particular thing, which you could translate to understand it in some quite different sense, and then refute it. A great strategy would also be to hide your conclusion from your opponent until the end, while mingling your premises here and there in your talk which will get your opponent to agree to them in no definite order. These strategies will get your opponent to think in a different way or manipulate their thoughts in order to view things from your perspective, resulting in your opponent to end up agreeing with you.
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