{"id":1027,"date":"2024-01-14T11:47:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T11:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/14\/political-argumentation-and-political-evolution\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T11:47:38","slug":"political-argumentation-and-political-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/14\/political-argumentation-and-political-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Argumentation and Political Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/political-argumentation-and-political?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcome=true\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Top<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> o&#39; the <em>Stack<\/em>.&#0160; Written in May 2016 but still relevant. I defend the cogency of the&#0160; &#39;Hillary is worse&#39; defense of Donald Trump against Charles Murray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">In the January 2004 <em>post scriptum<\/em> I concede that the impressive &#39;Jacques,&#39; an untenured Canadian philosopher whose name I cannot reveal because of vicious leftists such as Brian Leiter, gets the better of me in the comment thread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Despite the infirmity of reason and the pointlessness of most discussions of controversial questions, some discussion can be profitable, can lead to mutual clarification, and in some rare cases effect a salutary modification of one&#39;s position.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top o&#39; the Stack.&#0160; Written in May 2016 but still relevant. I defend the cogency of the&#0160; &#39;Hillary is worse&#39; defense of Donald Trump against Charles Murray. In the January 2004 post scriptum I concede that the impressive &#39;Jacques,&#39; an untenured Canadian philosopher whose name I cannot reveal because of vicious leftists such as Brian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/14\/political-argumentation-and-political-evolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Argumentation and Political Evolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,160,56,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-of-the-mind","category-political-argumentation","category-politics","category-reason-and-rationality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}