Have you ever convinced anyone of anything?
With the slowly settling clarity that my side has been losing arguments left and right, I feel I should contribute whatever cents I have towards the cause. This is Part 1 of 2 - which I am sure you should be able to decide if you want to skip altogether after reading the first line of the next paragraph. Frankly, I get it. But now with this newly formed trust between you and me, with my established sincerity and solidarity, I must ask you to believe my claim that Part 2 is nothing like this one, and is definitely worth a read. An argument has a premise, some assumptions and a conclusion. Premise is the baseline that is meant to have no contentions, and are stated as facts. I am given a coat with a frog in one of its pocket. I looked in the coat's left pocket, it is not in there. Therefore, it must be in the right pocket. The first two sentences are the premise, statements that for the sake of the argument are presented as solid truth. The last sentence is the conclusion, drawn fro...
