Motus Mentis

To argue productively requires some agreement on fundamentals. All theorems must rest on axioms.

Oscar Wilde famously said “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

To harangue others about first principles can never be anything but tedious. (It will certainly never be productive, because arguments, to be developed, must rest on self-evident premises.) Why do it?