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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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6 - Method of Debate
The method of debate in this Art consists in adducing arguments based on the propositions taken from
the cameras that must be formed so that the particular
issue at hand can be found in them by the debating parties.
At the outset of the debate, both debating parties must truly intend to investigate the particular issue
at hand, as both agree to concede the truth and observe the
rules and process of this Art, since the universality of this Art leads to the discernment of the truth
in all sciences when its principles and process are followed.
If a party raises sophistic arguments and sows the seed of fallacy, the fallacies are to be refuted
with the principles and statements of this Art, because no fallacy
can stand against them, as they compel one to concede the truth. If the party remains recalcitrant,
or a victim of ignorance that keeps it from recognizing the truth,
the absurd consequences of its arguments must be demonstrated with the irrefutable principles and statements
of this Art which cannot be refuted as they are
organic parts of its universality. And if the party still resists and will not concede the truth despite
the obvious unreasonableness and impossibility of its position,
then let it remain in its ignorance, for if it has any intelligence it will feel wounded in its conscience
and this wound can enable it to concede the truth at some other
time
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