Meaning of Bulverize | Babel Free

Definitions

To subject (an opponent) in a debate) to Bulverism ("a rhetorical fallacy in which a speaker assumes that their opponent's argument is wrong, and instead of disproving it, condescendingly explains why their opponent would have come to that conclusion").

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Examples

“We might recall⟳ here Roger Scruton's commendation of taking "a negotiating posture towards the other'—to do that, I think⟳, is to cease to see⟳ a person as "the other" but rather as "my neighbor." And when you do that, it becomes harder to Bulverize that person, to treat⟳ him or her as so obviously wrong that no debate⟳ is required, only mockery.”

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