Defining common goals:
Defining the terms that can be ambiguous:
e.g., system, religion, democrat, republican, blue, red, libertarian
and instead using a scale or website to define where one sits.
Recognizing that logic and reason without the knowledge of everything that exists reflects an argument from an incomplete ontology
Defining the levels of various parameters one is operating at:
Snark level: 0 - 10; Embellishment level: 0;
- Logical Fallacies
- Supporting data or observations
- Supporting quotations or authorities and distance from original thought
Rehashing of existing arguments:
- Vaccines
- Taxes
- Privatization of Everything