The Importance of Argument in Argumentation

Theory of mind and reading people's motivations has been a intellectual interest of yours. How do you respond to that critique or how do you make sense of that? So there's different kinds of arguments as it turns out, right? And so there's an argument in the form of science, right? The problem with human affairs is that if we're debating chemistry, that method works really well. But for social, political, let's say broadly intellectual arguments, there's nothing like that exists,. There's no testable hypothesis. There's no falsifiability. You know, there's no empirical anything. It just so happens that safety is one of those categories.

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