{"id":6073,"date":"2020-02-20T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2024-07-17T04:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T04:15:57","slug":"how-to-criticize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/how-to-criticize\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Criticize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/03\/28\/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism\">From Daniel Dennett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>You should attempt to re-express your target\u2019s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, \u201cThanks, I wish I\u2019d thought of putting it that way.<\/li>\n<li>You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).<\/li>\n<li>You should mention anything you have learned from your target.<\/li>\n<li>Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/six-steps-to-sorry\/\">How to apologize<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daniel Dennett: You should attempt to re-express your target\u2019s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, \u201cThanks, I wish I\u2019d thought of putting it that way. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement). You should mention anything you have learned&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/how-to-criticize\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,372],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decisions","category-language-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1zX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}