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Alan Keyes Arrested at Notre Dame with Radical Anti-Abortion Activists

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Former Belgian5/15/2009 10:00:45 pm PDT

re: #388 Syrah

Extreme examples that will only alienate those that you want to persuade are … problematic.

The Socratic method is sometimes more useful then poking people with a sharp stick. It is very difficult and extremely time consuming, but you might find it more rewarding.

A classic example of the difference between “logic” and “argumentation”. Logically she was just applying the “reductio ad absurdum”. But people inevitable read an implied comparison into her argument.