Porkopolis: Essential Tools for Blogging: How to Disagree

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Essential Tools for Blogging: How to Disagree

An excellent thought provoking essay: How to Disagree by Paul Graham.

Graham arguments only hold if the all participants in a disagreement are doing so using the same rules.

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