As pretty much every other review of this book says, it’s not about winning arguments. Who knows who decided on that title, because it’s not what this book contains. Instead it’s a descriptive book. And I mean this in the sense of descriptive versus prescriptive language, an idea that I probably apply too liberally to various concepts based on whether something seeks to draw a large circle around something, and then explain what that circle contains, or whether someone wishes to write out what a […]
Winning Arguments – Stanley Fish (2016)
Winning Arguments by Stanley Fish