Argumentation Quote by Richard Rorty

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the…

— Peter Kreeft

“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.”

— Deborah Cameron

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

— Pamela Druckerman

“You can’t rationally argue out what wasn’t rationally argued in.”

— George Bernard Shaw

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their…

— Christina Stead

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

— Bernard Pivot

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

— Simon Baker

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

— Michel Houellebecq

“Rational is when an act is performed based on logical grounds.”

— Duop Chak Wuol

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

— John Dewey

“Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.”

— Robert Lane Greene

I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a continuous system…

— Kenny Smith