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Comment by CobrastanJorji

3 days ago

I think it'd be more interesting to map out entire trees of arguments about a topic. Start with something big, like "is there a God," then come up with all of the arguments for or against, then come up with all of the arguments against those arguments, then the counters to those arguments. Really explore it as a sort of debate space. Then bring in citations not as backing but for historical context: "Plato made this argument in such and such." The idea wouldn't be so much to decide a winner as to prevent us from going around in circles by making a map.

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Scarblac  3 days ago

> Start with something big, like "is there a God,"

To do that you first need a definition of the concept God.

And then you realize that all the people making arguments in the past were using their own unspoken and incompatible definitions.