Epistemology and Democracy
One strategy Robert and I find rampant in contemporary argumentative culture is the use of tone of voice to distort a dialectical situation.We call the strategy modus tonens. With modus tonens, you not only reject a view, imply there’s something obviously wrong with it, and communicate that to an onlooking audience, but you also communicate to the interlocutors that they are in need of some educating on the issue — they commit obvious errors, and they don’t even know what they are.
Continuing the End Times series, Richard Marshall interviews Robert Talisse and Scott F. Aikin.