Debate and Wisdom

Author: Liu Jianxiang
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: One of the series "Speech Culture in China and Foreign Countries," this book is guided by logic, based on linguistics, and supported by famous and successful argumentation examples from ancient and modern China and the world. With the basic approach of explaining principles, analyzing examples, and teaching methods, the author summarizes and refines dozens of argumentation techniques and arts, creating a methodology reader that integrates philosophical, dialectical, and entertaining elements. It aims to improve readers' argumentation skills, artistic taste, and language expression abilities, thereby developing multiple intelligences and enhancing various capabilities. It is worth reading. Numerous argumentation examples from all over the world throughout history and modern times prove that whether it is logical cleverness or the skillful use of logic in sophistry, there is often "cleverness" in "sophistry" and "sophistry" in "cleverness." Both cleverness and sophistry are manifestations of wisdom and the creation of wisdom. Just like the humor technique in argumentation, it can violate logical principles to substitute concepts, twist cause and effect, leading to absurdity, yet making the opponent not perceive it as wrong but rather find it amusing, effortlessly achieving its argumentation goals and demonstrating the wisdom of the arguer.