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How to Change Minds: Blaise Pascal on the Art of Persuasion
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14/12/2016 from
www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/20/blaise-pascal-pensees-persuasion/
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the surest way of defeating the erroneous views of others is not by bombarding the bastion of their self-righteousness but by slipping in through the backdoor of their beliefs... People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others...
Pascal frames persuasion ... predicated first and foremost on ... empathic insight into the context and concerns that animate the other person’s mind: Eloquence … persuades by sweetness, not by authority…
Pascal frames persuasion ... predicated first and foremost on ... empathic insight into the context and concerns that animate the other person’s mind: Eloquence … persuades by sweetness, not by authority…
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