Some of it strikes me as very likely to be correct—learn from your mistakes, respect your opponent, choose opponents worthy of respect (my re-phrasing of his “don’t waste your time on rubbish”). Some of it is ideas I’m going to check—“surely” and rhetorical questions are what people do to shore up weak points in their arguments.
Daniel Dennett’s tools for thinking
Some of it strikes me as very likely to be correct—learn from your mistakes, respect your opponent, choose opponents worthy of respect (my re-phrasing of his “don’t waste your time on rubbish”). Some of it is ideas I’m going to check—“surely” and rhetorical questions are what people do to shore up weak points in their arguments.