Where do your arguments usually reside?

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_keene
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Where do your arguments usually reside?

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Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement!

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http://blog.createdebate.com/2008/04/07 ... arguments/

Take from this what you will.
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Post by _Coach T »

.....but calling someone an asshat is cathartic, no?
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Re: Where do your arguments usually reside?

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keene wrote:Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement! [img]cut[/img] http://blog.createdebate.com/2008/04/07 ... arguments/
Take from this what you will.

For example, I take Your avatar... Image Where is a hat in the diagram?
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Post by _keene »

Coach T wrote:.....but calling someone an asshat is cathartic, no?


Absolutely! And I often encourage it on this site.
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Where do your arguments usually reside?


I find myself most often in the upper three degrees of GH glory.
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Post by _Sethbag »

ROFL, when I first saw this thread and clicked into it I had read it too quickly and thought you were asking where our garments reside. I was going to reply that they reside at the bottom of my underwear drawer, at least the ones that haven't already been converted into rags.

As far as my arguments go, at the top, baby. ;-)
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Post by _The Dude »

bcspace wrote:
Where do your arguments usually reside?


I find myself most often in the upper three degrees of GH glory.


Um, a tiny flaw in the hierarchy: refuting the central point of a strawman doesn't count.
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I find myself most often in the upper three degrees of GH glory.

Um, a tiny flaw in the hierarchy: refuting the central point of a strawman doesn't count.


So most of the arguments against the Church here are strawman arguments? I tend to agree.....
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Post by _Mercury »

it depends on my mood. The sun does not rise and set based on my performance.
And crawling on the planet's face
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