Good stuff, LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix :) And I appreciate the effort you (will) put into it (with the upcoming chapters). Haven't read all of it, but most of it.


My complaint is that it looks too "mathematical" and has too much terminology, though that isn't necessarily a bad thing. It just looks a bit "unfriendly" if you dig what I'm getting at - the terminology and length mainly. I tend to be linguistic so maybe that's why I dislike this "mathematical" expression. But this doesn't make your guide any less logical, heh heh.

If your goal was to have a guide to be used as direction for having discussions or debates (in here, the Backroom, but actually anywhere else might do as well), I think it would've been better to base it on a healthy mix of logic, pragmatism, language, and especially general argumentation - in the big picture, to win debates (and of course, to ascertain truth).

One can get too much caught up in formal logic and details, and could lose the big picture. I'd say, let's go for a more free and quickly effective form of discussion or arguments to quickly shut people up (unless their egos, emotions, and such, take over). And to do that, I think those four qualities mentioned above (including keeping a big picture in mind), but especially pragmatism, come in very handy.



Keep up the good work! :)