argument

19 Dec 2024 - 19 Dec 2024
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      • That sounds like arguing
    • I like to argue, and I've been doing it on the internet since before there was an internet, but I have to admit (a) it isn't as great a method as advertised and (b) it comes off as obnoxious.
    • The argument for argument is from traditional scholarship, which is dialectical and agonistic (see Ong)
    • Something about academic or intellectual discourse in general encourages argument and hostility, that's not just me, that's the genre. Good academics can play the game and score a friendly win, amateurs like me get too emotional and turn it into a deathmatch.