Reply #131: ROFL! This is certainly the right room for an argument......

[Pert_UK]

"Argument isn't the automatic gainsaying of my position, that's just contradiction!"

"No it isn't!"

"Yes it is!"

"Look, if I want to argue with you I have to take up a contrary position"

"But that's not just saying 'No it isn't'"

"Well it can be!"

And so forth.......

My problem is that I learned to argue by studying logic and philosophy at university......I suppose that it's naive to assume that everybody else is going to play by all the rules of Modus Ponens, Reductio Ad Absurdum or logical necessity........or even read what I've written! That's not to say that I would ever consider my opinion to be better than anyone else's, but quite often I believe that my argument is a little more rigourous.

P.