The Art Of Being Right

Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing and of disputing in such a way as to hold one's own whether one is in the right or the wrong per fas et nefas. A man may be objectively in the right and nevertheless in the eyes of bystanders and sometimes in his own he may come off worst. For example I may advance a proof of some assertion and my adversary may refute the proof and thus appear to have refuted the assertion for which there may nevertheless be other proofs. In this case of course my adversary and I change places: he comes off best although as a matter of fact he is in the wrong.