Best Practices of a Debate of Opinions

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best practices of a debate of opinions

• see also,

  • best practices of a debate,

• acknowledge this is a debate about opinions. This means that

  1. no one will is wrong or right,
  2. it is most likely there will be no conclusion,

• just learn what is the opinion of your debate partner and adjust your truth cursors accordingly,

• use at much as possible epistemic modesty, indicating how much you decided to believe what you are claiming,

If at some point, during a debate, someone invokes the « it’s obvious » claim, this means that:

1. it was a debate about opinions hidden in a debate
2. the possibility to accept opinions of the partner are broken. It’s obvious means « I’m right and I don’t have to prove myself to you » after all.

In that case, just leave the debate. You are not in the good circumstances to bring something or get something from this situation.

Notes linking here

• best practices of a debate
• convaincre = impossible?

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