j4age component required, but not installed 18 - Interrupt, Break, Divert the Dispute

Sophistic & Logic

- This stratagem relies on changing the subject of the dispute by any means.

Original text

If you observe that your opponent has taken up a line of argument which will end in your defeat, you must not allow him to carry it to its conclusion, but interrupt the course of the dispute in time, or break it off altogether, or lead him away from the subject, and bring him to others. In short, you must effect the trick which will be noticed later on, the mutatio controversiae.

 

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