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About this book
'Beware who you give this book to.' Financial Times 'I recommend that you keep this delightful essay at your side.' Observer 'Dryly witty essay' Alain de Botton, Sunday Telegraph We all sit through meetings with that one person who seems to be able to persuade everyone. What is their secret? Are they more gifted than we are? Or is it just that they are very skilled in the art of persuation? That is exactly what it is. They are people who use subtle tricks to convince other people to agree with them. Based on a lifetime of observing opinion-forming by two authors, The Art of Always Being Right shows you the 38 ways that will convince people that you are right. Master them all and success is guaranteed.
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Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Media & Communications IndustryTable of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Index
- The Truth
- Introduction
- The Art of Always Being Right
- 1: Extension
- 2: Homonyms
- 3: Generalise your opponentâs specific statements
- 4: Conceal your game
- 5: False premises
- 6: Postulate what has to be proven
- 7: Yield admissions through questions
- 8: Make your opponent angry
- 9: Question in detouring order
- 10: Take advantage of the no-sayer
- 11: Generalise admissions of specific cases
- 12: Choose metaphors favourable to your proposition
- 13: Agree to reject the counter-argument
- 14: Claim victory despite defeat
- 15: Use seemingly absurd propositions
- 16: Use your opponentâs views
- 17: Defence through subtle distinction
- 18: Interrupt, break-up, divert the debate
- 19: Generalise the matter, then argue against it
- 20: Draw conclusions yourself
- 21: Counter with an argument as bad as his
- 22: Beg the question
- 23: Make him exaggerate
- 24: State a false syllogism
- 25: Find the instance to the contrary
- 26: Turn the tables
- 27: Anger indicates a weak point
- 28: Persuade the audience, not the opponent
- 29: Diversion
- 30: Appeal to authority rather than reason
- 31: This is beyond me
- 32: Put his thesis into some odious category
- 33: It applies in theory, but not in practice
- 34: Donât let him off the hook
- 35: Will is more effective than insight
- 36: The Vicar of Wakefield
- 37: A faulty proof refutes his whole position
- 38: The ultimate strategy
- I: Appendix
- II: Appendix
- III: Appendix
- Schopenhauerâs Pessimism
- Translatorâs Note
- Copyright