1) Always listen to your rational adversary, repeat their arguments back to them to their satisfaction rather than in caricature.
2) List facts; states of affairs that are not in dispute. Adduce no fact in isolation.
3) Form the strongest version of your rational counterparts' argument.
4) Apply reason faithfully to analyze.
5) Lather rinse repeat.
It seems the above is the best humans have every been able to do, it is child's play that we somehow forgot, maybe because we labelled it as something obscure like "the scientific method" or "legal process". I think this is as simple as "follow your nose".
1) Always listen to your rational adversary, repeat their arguments back to them to their satisfaction rather than in caricature.
2) List facts; states of affairs that are not in dispute. Adduce no fact in isolation.
3) Form the strongest version of your rational counterparts' argument.
4) Apply reason faithfully to analyze.
5) Lather rinse repeat.
It seems the above is the best humans have every been able to do, it is child's play that we somehow forgot, maybe because we labelled it as something obscure like "the scientific method" or "legal process". I think this is as simple as "follow your nose".