Want to do ‘logical’ debate with someone? Keep this triangle in mind
In the era of social media, debate is quite commonly used. But very few debates are actually ‘logical’ and are centred on the topic. Its extremely important to do logical debate to reach on the conclusion by inductive reasoning.
Debates are mostly centered around the disagreement. The triangle which I am talking about is actually Paul Graham’s hierarchy of the disagreement. It’s the important triangle which should be kept in the mind while logically debating with someone.
Actually, as you move downwards, the disagreement becomes worst and thus, illogical. Let’s understand what the each step of disagreement says.
- Name calling:- Instead of countering the argument, person will label the arguer something like ‘You’re anti-national. So, you will not understand’.
- Ad Hominem:- It’s called personal attack. Here, arguer is attacked rather than the argument like person will attack on the character and thinking of the arguer rather than the logical point which was put forwarded by the aguer.
- Responding to tone:- In this type of disagreement, person will respond to the tone that you have used like
“Your words are so much strong and are full of hatred. So, I won’t reply you.” - Contradiction:- Contradiction happens when person is reaching on the conclusion with having very few evidence or no evidence.
- Counter Argument:- In this type of disagreement, person breakdown the argument of the arguer with the help of the evidences and proper reasoning.
- Refutation:- When the person finds out the mistake from arguer’s words and says why this happened then it’s called as refutation. In short, one can compare to find the loopholes in the thinking of the arguer.
- Refuting the central point:- This is the most logical form of the disagreement. Here, the argument of the arguer are logically challenged and the main point of the idea is rejected by logics.
It can be concluded that as you’re moving upwards then your disagreements become logical and thus, worthy. So, next time if you want to do logical debate or discussion with someone and you disagree with them then keep this in mind.
