Thread: Argumentation Is Pointless

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

It's funny because if you had read my post in this thread you'd understand exactly what's wrong with that attitude.

Dammit. I saw my name in your post and accidentally read it. Then I went back to read the post you're mentioning. I read the first sentence and the one that you quoted.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

All intellectual growth is self-emergent, people cannot simply give up their cognitive matrix of reality and adapt someone else's because they couldn't figure out how to trump that person in a debate.

This is already showing that you argue precisely like OP is describing. Argument is not about "trumping" another person in a debate, it's about clearly showing why the ideas being advanced do not fit reality. It's ok though. The vast majority of people argue like you do.

Here's the sentence you quoted:

There is nothing to gain from admitting you're wrong to someone who has failed to convince you of anything.

There is nothing to gain from arguing with someone that has failed to demonstrate so much as a shred of intellectual honesty because you will always fail to convince them of anything.