My partner and I are both philosophy grad students and we've started having these brutal arguments about everything from dinner plans to career decisions where we both slip into formal debate mode and tear each other's reasoning apart instead of actually listening. We can't seem to turn off the critical thinking training even when we're just trying to connect as humans.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intellectual rigor becomes a barrier to intimacy when partners weaponize their training in argumentation against each other.
“Where Are You with Logic and argumentation traditions?”
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