“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”

“Believing a given proposition is a matter of believing that it faithfully represents some state of the world, and this fact yields some immediate insights into the standards by which our beliefs should function. In particular, it reveals why we cannot help but value evidence and demand that propositions about the world logically cohere.”

“Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.”

“Even though I believe birthday parties should be given, not taken, I wish someone would take all of mine and hide them on the other side of eternity.”

“An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not...”

“Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition expressed in numbers is definitely false or true. In all other relations, the truth is so mingled with the false that often only instinct can help us to decide among virtuous influences, sometimes equally as strong in one direction as in the other.”