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education/english/ENGL2010/"Why Argument Matters" - Aikin and Talisse.md
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- Our beliefs guide and determine our behavior
- Others care how we behave
- If beliefs lead to behavior, then controlling beliefs means controlling behaviors
- Argumw
- Argumentative skills are self defensive
- Diverting attention away from reasons makes those reasons easier to accept
- Making opponents of a belief "The Enemy" is another way to make a belief easier to accept
- Manipulation of beliefs can generally be categorized as diverting manipulation and distorting manipulation
- Everyone aims to be in possession of the truth
- Knowing why you believe a certain way is important, perhaps more important than the beliefs themselves.
- Cognitive success is being correct, cognitive command is understanding why
- Cognitive command doesn't necessarily guarantee correctness, but it enables one to rationally correct themselves
- Pushback helps develop more complete understanding
- When you only interact with people that agree with you, your beliefs become more extreme.
- Deliberative democracy is healthy
- Democracy relies on the ability to undo change, ala "we make changes and learn from them as we approach the ideal"
- Everyone believes that they haven't been duped.