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Rhetological Fallacies. SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher.

SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT

These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896. Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow his or her propositions remain, the easier they are to defend by him or her. Pirate game. From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates The pirate game is a simple mathematical game.

Pirate game

It illustrates how, if assumptions conforming to a homo economicus model of human behaviour hold, outcomes may be surprising. Some paradoxes - an anthology. Idiagram: The Art of Insight and Action.