The Art of Controversy

By Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Title:	The Art of Controversy
Author:	Schopenhauer, Arthur
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt: THE name Dialectic was, as we are informed by Diogenes Laertius, first used by Plato; and in the Phaedrus, Sophist, Republic, bk. vii., and elsewhere, we find that by Dialectic he means the regular employment of the reason, and skill in the practice of it. Aristotle also uses the word in this sense; but, according to Laurentius Valla, he was the first to use Logic too in a similar way.{footnote 1} Dialectic, therefore, seems to be an older word than Logic. Cicero and Quintilian use the words in the same general signification.{footnote 2} {(Footnote 1.) He speaks of duochereiai logikai, that is, ?difficult points,? protasis logike, aporia logike.} {(Footnote 2.) Cic. in Lucullo: Dialecticam inventam esse, veri et falsi quasi disceptatricem. Topica, c. 2: Stoici enim judicandi vias diligenter persecuti sunt, ea scientia, quam Dialecticen appellant. Quint., lib. ii., 12: Itaque haec pars dialecticae, sive illam disputatricem dicere malimus; and with him this latter word appears to be the Latin equivalent for Dialectic. (So far according to ?Petri Rami dialectics, Audomari Talaei praelectionibus illustrata?. 1569.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Art of Controversy, 1 -- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1 -- Excerpt from Translator's Preface:, 2 -- Preliminary: Logic And Dialectic, 2 -- Controversial Dialectic, 3 -- The Basis Of All Dialectic, 7 -- Stratagem I, 8 -- Stratagem II, 9 -- Stratagem III, 10 -- Stratagem IV, 10 -- Stratagem V, 10 -- Stratagem VI, 11 -- Stratagem VII, 11 -- Stratagem VIII, 11 -- Stratagem IX, 11 -- Stratagem X, 12 -- Stratagem XI, 12 -- Stratagem XII, 12 -- Stratagem XIII, 12 -- Stratagem XIV, 13 -- Stratagem XV, 13 -- Stratagem XVI, 13 -- Stratagem XVII, 13 -- Stratagem XVIII, 13 -- Stratagem XIX, 14 -- Stratagem XX, 14 -- Stratagem XXI, 14 -- Stratagem XXII, 14 -- Stratagem XXIII, 14 -- Stratagem XXIV, 14 -- Stratagem XXV, 15 -- Stratagem XXVI, 15 -- Stratagem XXVII, 15 -- Stratagem XXVIII, 15 -- Stratagem XXIX {footnote 15}, 16 -- Stratagem XXX, 16 -- Stratagem XXXI, 18 -- Stratagem XXXII, 18 -- Stratagem XXXIII, 19 -- Stratagem XXXIV, 19 -- Stratagem XXXV, 19 -- Stratagem XXXVI, 20 -- Stratagem XXXVII, 20 -- The Ultimate Stratagem XXXVIII, 20 -- The Art of Controversy -- i