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(7.8KB, 300x358) > Dialectic, then, need have nothing to do with truth, as little as the fencing master considers who is in the right when a dispute leads to a duel. Thrust and parry is the whole business. Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge. For if we take purely objective truth as our aim, we are reduced to mere Logic; if we take the maintenance of false propositions, it is mere Sophistic; and in either case it would have to be assumed that we were aware of what was true and what was false; and it is seldom that we have any clear idea of the truth beforehand. The true conception of Dialectic is, then, that which we have formed: it is the art of intellectual fencing used for the purpose of getting the best of it in a dispute; and, although the name Eristic would be more suitable, it is more correct to call it controversial Dialectic, Dialectica eristica.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Controversy
Many religions have associated martial arts, turns out we have one too. Do you practice it? Of course you do, otherwise you wouldn't be on an imageboard. Should Schopenhauer's little manual be updated with some contemporary examples? Are there any novel stratagems?
