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There is no good reason to win every argument. The person who is wrong should always lose the argument because this makes both people or at least one of them learn. If someone who wins an argument is wrong, they learn nothing.

This doesn't allow you to win arguments, it just allows you to defend against bad ones.

In any case, it is irrelevant to most of LoL. There is not enough time in game to discuss logical fallacies, and, as other people have pointed out, most people will just ignore you/rant at you if you actually attempt to do so. Knowing these fallacies does *not* stop other people from committing them, nor does it convince them to stop using them.

In any case, I should hope that my teammates would be working on playing the game as opposed to typing (as long as they aren't dead). I get fairly annoyed if people suddenly stop to chat, and I would be annoyed even if they are doing so to rip apart someone's logical fallacy.

I enjoy this you should keep going. But these points don't necessarily allow you to win arguments, all it does it shows you ways in which people can attempt to persuade your opinion. It doesn't show how you can counter such statements to defeat them, merely how they will defeat you.

you are running out of things to talk about.

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Arthur, King of trolls since 1864.

Hehe, I would have to say, arguements break out often enough in games and other places.  The real question is, what is it that you are trying to accomplish by the arguement?

If you want to win, then go for it.  Win the arguement.

If that is not what you seek when you argue, then, well, maybe argueing is the last thing you should ever do to accomplish what you seek.

Only problem with this well written article is that it assume that the people you argue with got half a brain.
On lower ELO (where this tend to happen more) these arguments will only meet a 'STFU NOOB I FEED NOW' kind of reaction.

Don't know if people are allergic to the truth and when it hits them they go into Brain Damage-mode much like if a person would suffer a stroke =( 

Half a brain is exactly who this works on. If you play with the kinds of folks I do (who all happen to have been national level debaters), it hardly allows you do "destroy" them.

Your title doesn't fit. You point out flaws in arguments, but you won't win every argument after reading this article.  Especially not against my friends, who aren't stupid.

To me this brings nothing new and is totally off topic.

I like how you call out your fellow bloggers in the comments. I remember them because I always go 'wtf this guy sounds like that gossip bitch at work that always reveals things told in private conversations and rats everyone out'

I think he was giving an example of Fallacy #1

I really enjoyed this post,mainly because i am interested in this kind of stuff.Sure,it is inrelevan to LoL,but it wasn't bad either.

They need to start teaching this earlier. The first lesson I got in logic and argumentation came in my second year of college.

The sad truth is, in real life, no one ever wins arguments. You cant be rational against irrational people. most people think repeating their arguments louder makes them more convincing. Rational argument requires mutual respect, and that's a hard thing to find, especially when two people are in passionate disagreement. If the point of the argument is one persons competence or performance, the argument is especially hopeless.  A lot of people can take criticism if it's tactfully and carefully done. Almost no one can take it after the team gets aced. (Usually, If it's my fault I take credit for it before anyone can point the finger, so I cheat a little bit ;))