On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:41:38PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > Anthony Towns: > > Anyway, the real point of replying was for me to have some fun playing > > (what I'll hereby dub) the false dichotomy game. That's where you take > > a set of contradictory statements, and setup reasonable scenarios where, > > in fact, both alternatives are true simultaneously. > I'd call it the "obscure the point game", because the pairs of statements > were meant to illustrate a difference in attitude, not a set of absolute > contradictions. You can call it whatever you like. The art of compromise and consensus building is the art of finding something that achieves apparently conflicting goals simultaneously. > But I think you know that. Because you are really playing > another game, which I'll dub "the innuendo game". Cheers, aj
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