How to win an argument when you're wrong.

More on blogospheric rhetoric, via Newsvine.

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I found a few that gave me misgivings or atleast made me confused:

Postmodern - use to refer to any jargon unfamiliar to you. Apparently the term has a more precise meaning, but this is only according to people who write in unfamiliar jargon and can therefore be safely ignored.

Do people really do this without being justified in doing so? Or we could discuss subdialectic textual theory and postdialectic discourse?

Evidence � demand it. Always refer to as �empirical�. If actually offered, criticise the methodology.

Demanding evidence is a rhetorical device? I assume he means criticism of the methodology by means of another rhetorical device?