Sublime

Dennett neatly summarizes Rapoport’s Rules in his book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking. If your goal is to engage someone successfully, take these steps in this order: 1. Attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.” 2. List any p

When you think of car dealers: “The Effects of Supplier Fairness on Vulnerable Resellers” was written by Nirmalya Kumar, Lisa Scheer, and Jan-Benedict Steenkamp. It was published in the Journal of Marketing Research 32 (1995): 54–65.

Neither of us will insist that his or her calculation is correct. We will instead agree that we each have an equal chance of being wrong and so redo the calculation until we agree. But until we do agree, neither of us will claim to be right.

motivations of those presenting the arguments instead of dealing with their arguments).

develop our arguments in light of the best version of our opponents’ position.

we will need to put arguments on both sides in their strongest forms, take account of all relevant evidence, keep in mind the role of convictions and the resulting limits of argument, and assess responsibly the significance of the disagreement remaining when argument has done what it can.