I’d like an argument please

Posted on February 26, 2014 
Filed under Resources

How to Read a Book“Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book:

You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty,

‘I understand,’

before you can say any one of the following things:

‘I agree,’ or
‘I disagree,’ or
‘I suspend judgment.’

For those who don’t do this, he says:

There is actually no point in answering critics of this sort. The only polite thing to do is to ask them to state your position for you, the position they claim to be challenging.…”

– Read the full (but brief) post by Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds.