Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners
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Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
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The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
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I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote
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No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical
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You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
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Never argue; repeat your assertion
There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions
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The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right
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There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there is only one
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers
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Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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An argument derived from the abuse of a thing does not hold good against its use
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading
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He would argue the moon was blue
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