http://twentytwowords.com/2012/04/23/11-ways-you-are-thoroughly-but-interestingly-wrong/

“A basic understanding of rhetorical fallacies is a crucial structural foundation of representational intelligence, and verbal intelligence in particular. Without these foundations, our intelligence tends to attack itself and just about everything else within its purview.

Actively acquiring and perfecting these understandings is like learning how to use plates, glasses, and silverware. You probably shouldn’t be at the table if you do not yet understand its elements, their relationships, and the goal of their careful and proper arrangement in your near proximity.”

— an anonymous informant