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Winning Arguments – Stanley Fish (2016)

Winning Arguments by Stanley Fish

January 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Stanley Fish, winning arguments

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:42 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Stanley Fish, winning arguments ·
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