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Shitty Arguments

Posted on January 10, 2011 by A. Jay Adler

That is the technical term – shitty argument – a type of informal logical argument first identified by Aristotle in his Logic, as part of his discussion of sophistical arguments. A shitty argument may be shitty because it is a particular manifestation of “bad” – that is, so shameless that the perpetrator of it is […]

Posted in The Political AnimalTagged argument, Gabrielle Giffords, rhetoric, Sarah Palin2 Comments

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