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People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man…

— Madsen Pirie

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is…

— Samuel Johnson

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

— Isaac Watts

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person --a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to…

— Ambrose Bierce

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

— Roland Barthes

“A Man who doesn't want to justify himself after being falsely accused, is apparently at Fault — or he has been accused falsely so…

— Sino Melo

“To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a…

— Edward De Bono

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

— John Mortimer

“The affliction was too insipid, too much a product of our surrendering mindful regard and diligence. The meanings of words lost their precision –…

— Steven Erikson

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman…

— Bob Barr

“the ultimate standard, by which we determine all disputes, that may arise concerning them, is always derived from experience and observation. Where this experience…

— Christopher Hitchens