PHIL 1600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eristic
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In ideal form, pure and dedicated to finding best answer. Each party wants to maximize benefits to themselves. One arguer aims to have the other arguer adopt their position. Goal: figuring out who will hold the seats at the movie and who will fetch snacks. Goal: deciding which movie is the best bet to see based on the reviews found on-line. Goal: one person becomes convinced by another that a movie is not worth seeing. Jorge: how shall we study for the test? . Kamala: let"s check to see what dr. h recommended last time. " Jorge: do you know where they posted it? . Kamala: i think it was in an announcement that we received by email. Jamal: nobody should have to deal with that sort of nonsense, especially in a work environment. Professor: i can give you more exercises on the first topic if that would help.