I've seen convincing arguments in this forum, and less convincing arguments.
Most of us here are to learn or revise Latin and Greek, and we have recourse to a wealth of appropriate text books. In this particular board, would it help if we also occasionally revised our skills in 'disputation'?
There is now a wealth of stuff out there on the Web about tricks used in debate, about fallacies that we sometimes fall into.
Here's a list of resources that I have used in the past:
http://www.246.dk/38tricks.html
http://www.info-pollution.com/fallacies.htm
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skep ... ments.html
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
http://datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/index.html
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~gmyers/esssa/rhetoric.html
http://www.cuyamaca.net/bruce.thompson/ ... lacies.asp
I wonder if anyone else can add to this list anything they have found useful in discerning good arguments from bad?
Good arguing, all!
Phylax