| By contrast, when we turn to Gongsun Long, we encounter a disputer who may have been devoted to sophistry purely for sophistry's sake. |
| Do not confuse one who is contending earnestly for the faith with the disputer of this age. |
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| The disputer could cite features of different kinds of things by which they could be treated as similar or features of things of the same kind by which they could be treated as different. |
| Conversely, in the harmful style of disputation, the disputer distorts and twists the opponent's words, making them come out false or inconsistent or extending them in unintended ways. |
| It is an exercise in cleverness, a kind of trick performance in which the disputer attempts to make a case for a claim that everyone knows does not fit its object. |
