How To Win Every Argument (3/8)
A gloss on Schopenhauer’s classic the Art Of Being Right. Includes the tactics Take Advantage of The Nay-Sayer, Generalize Admissions of Specific Cases, Choose Metaphors Favourable to Your Proposition, Agree to Reject the Counter-Proposition & Claim Victory Despite Defeat
Want to up your argument and debating game? Learn the key strategies that people use to win over the crowd, and how to use and defend against them. Part I of this series gives an overview of the main strategy and defence types.
10. Take Advantage of The Nay-Sayer
If you observe that your opponent designedly returns a negative answer to the questions which, for the sake of your proposition, you want him to answer in the affirmative, you must ask the converse of the proposition, as though it were that which you were anxious to see affirmed; or, at any rate, you may give him his choice of both, so that he may not perceive which of them you are asking him to affirm.
Category: Invoke Moral Hazard
Punchline: Use their negative response against them.
Usage: This is a responsive trick — it is to be used when your opponent sees where you are going and refuses to go there himself.
