The Woolly-Thinker's Guide to Rhetoric

Here you'll find top tips for besting your enemies. As employed by the world's best woolly-thinkers. Learn, for example: how to play the 'biological reductionist' card to maximum effect; how 'language games' can help you out of a sticky situation; and how lucky it is that 'truth' is relative to particular discourses (especially yours).

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Entries

• Be Courageous
• Be dismissive
• Cheers and catcalls
• Claiming is Succeeding
• Clumsy sarcasm
• Define words in your own special way
• Develop sudden hearing loss
• Do a Procrustes
• Embrace contradiction
• Emotional Blackmail
• Evasive Tactics
• Fly under the radar
• Go Ahead, Contradict Yourself
• Histrionics
• Imply
• Mention the Armchair
• Moral One-upmanship
• Pat yourself on the back
• Pave With Good Intentions
• Play the theory card
• Pretend to be amused
• Repetition
• Say the methodology was flawed
• Say the outcome was predictable
• Translate
• Translate Even More When the Subject is Religion
• Use 'Obscure' as a First Name
• Use obscurity

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