It’s not an answer to my question about the purpose, it’s a restatement of another aspect of it efficiency.
(Maybe you mean “stopping an argument is sometimes in order”? I agree, but that an argument didn’t proceed still doesn’t warrant you to assume as settled in the conversation things that your interlocutor doesn’t agree with.)
It’s not an answer to my question about the purpose, it’s a restatement of another aspect of it efficiency.
(Maybe you mean “stopping an argument is sometimes in order”? I agree, but that an argument didn’t proceed still doesn’t warrant you to assume as settled in the conversation things that your interlocutor doesn’t agree with.)