WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: When It Sounds So True But You Know It’s Not?
(5:34 VIEWING) — Hardly a day goes by for most people working on Capitol Hill without hearing somebody make a claim in the course of a normal conversation that sounds so convincing, so accurate.
He who says it must provide evidence for it. (Screenshot from YouTube).
But you know it’s false.
So what do you say in response without worrying about “winning the argument”? In the latest edition of the Colson Center’s excellent series of “What Would You Say?” videos, Tim Barnett of Red Pen Logic and Mr. B lay out the T.H.I.N.K Principle.
What is that? It’s something you will benefit from knowing regardless of where you stand on any of the major questions that people debate and discuss every day. And it enables you to advance a conversation on the basis of clear, logical evidence rather than mere assertion.